Africa: Languages & Softwares

  • Afrikaans
      Example of Spoken Afrikaans. Afrikaans is the home language of about 7 million people, mostly in South Africa and Namibia. It belongs to the family of Germanic languages. It is part of the West Germanic subgroup and is, in fact, its newest member. Afrikaans is closely related to Dutch, and has been influenced by French, English and Malay
  • 2008 Summer Cooperative African Language Institute (SCALI)
      SCALI provides a unique opportunity to meet persons interested in Africa from across the United States. The Institute exposes learners to the culture and traditions associated with the chosen language inside and outside the classroom. Extracurricular activities designed to enhance the SCALI program include research forums, conversation hours, cooking demonstrations, African film showings, and language and culture festivals.
  • Arabic at U of Pennsylvania
      Penn's pioneer role in the implementation of proficiency-based instruction and testing has made its Arabic program one of the most prominent Arabic programs in the country.
  • The Arabic Macintosh An Informal Resource Centre (Knut S. Vik¿r)
      On these pages are collected various notes related to the use of computers and the computer networks for the Middle Eastern or Arabic scholar. They all are culled either from discussions that have taken place on e-mail or the otherwise, or from printed articles elsewhere.
  • Arabic Software Digest
      Information on Arabic software, fonts, dictionaries and catalogues.
  • Arabic for Windows
      Instructions on Arabic language support in Windows, Arabic keyboard, and writing from right to left.
  • Arabicizing Your Computer
      Insturction on how to set Arabic reading and writing capablities on computers running MS Windows, as well as using internet browsers to display Arabic.
  • Egyptian Hieroglyphs
      Resources on Egyptian Hieroglyphs.
  • Classification of African Languages
      List of all African Languages
  • Basic Lessons in Hieratic
      Take online lessons on Hieratic. Hieratic is the cursive form of Hieroglyphic writing which the Egyptians used for everday writing. Hieratic developed very early in Egyptian history, and remained in use for most documents until around 700BCE when it was replaced by Demotic. However, Hieratic was still used for religious documents on papyrus until the old priesthood was disbanded. Hieratic, as the practical form of writing, was the first type of writing that the Egyptian scribes learned. Hieroglyphi cs were only taught to advanced students. As a result, many scribes could not read Hieroglyphic inscriptions, or only with difficulty. This is, of course, exactly the opposite of what occurs now - Hieroglyphs first, then Hieratic for a select few. Hier atic texts are now usually transcribed into Hieroglyphs in order to be studied.
  • Deutsche Welle Online

      The site provides a compehensive news coverage in different languages including Arabic, Swahili, and Hausa.
  • HieroTeX (Serge Rosmorduc)
      Includes the latest release of HieroTeX, a latex system for hieroglyphs.
  • The UCLA Hausa Home Page

      This page provides comprehensive resources on Hausa, as well as links to other pages on the Hausa language, people and news.
  • Kiswahili Home Page (Kassim Abdullah)
      Introductory Kiswahili Lessons. Kiswahili is an African language spoken mainly by the people of eastern and central Africa.
  • Middle Egyptian
      Includes: short introduction to hieroglyphs, a database of hieroglyphic texts, a short bibliography on Ancient Egypt, hieroglyphs for LateX and how to wrtie your name in hieroglyphs.
  • MSU: Online Resources on Less Commonly Taught Langauges
  • Noun Classification in Swahili
      This paper is a report on research in progress on the semantics and syntax of noun classes in Swahili.
  • The Kamusi Project
      The Internet Living Swahili Dictionary (Yale University), is a collaborative work by people all over the world. The aim is to establish new dictionaries of the Swahili language, both within Swahili and between Swahili and English.
  • A Primer on Speaking and Writing Luganda
      Luganda, the native language of the people of Buganda (Uganda), developed over the centuries as a spoken language. The following discussion is neither meant to be a grammar nor a dictionary of the language. The focus is solely on how the language is w ritten (i.e. transcribing sound into alphabetic characters). T
  • Sesotho - Southern Sotho
      Sesotho was one of the first African languages to be reduced to writing, and it has an extensive literature. According to scholars the written form was originally based on the Tlokwa dialect. Today the written language is mostly based on the Kwena and Fo keng dialects.
  • Thesaurus Linguae Aethiopicae

      • Named (provisionally) Thesaurus Linguae Aethiopicae, the project aims at creating machine-readable and SGML-encoded (according to the guidelines of TEI P 3) Ethiopic texts and collecting them in a corpus for further research.

  • Qur'ani Tukufu

      • Translation of The Holy Qur'an to Swahili Language.

  • Yamada Web Guide to Amharic
      Resources on Amharic's morphology, teaching reources an poetry.
  • Writing in Egypt under Greek and Roman Rule (Peter van Minnen)
      Ancient texts in Hieratic, Demotic, Greek and Coptic.
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