A Concise Dictionary

of the Bini Language of

Southern Nigeria

by

Hans Melzian


Melzian's dictionary

has been digitized and put into epub format.

The epub book can be downloaded here (51.2 MB) and be read with a good epub reader (the Lithium epub reader works well for this epub book).

The original pdf file with a scan of the book can be downloaded here.

An epub book is a zip file that can be unzipped with any zip program. The contents of this epub file can be browsed here.

The dictionary can be browsed here.

The epub file contains a light version of the dictionary (860.3 kB) that contains only the digitized dictionary without the scanned text.

The masterfile and the addenda-masterfile contain the dictionary entries in a raw format from which other formats (ex. html, epub, database) can be generated. The format of the masterfiles is documented here


Last update: 03-09-2025