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African Languages
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This
section includes information about
the spoken languages of Africa,
as well as linguistic analysis
of some African languages.
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 .
Arabic- Virtual Language Lab
(Roger Allen)
The University of Pennsylvania's
pioneering 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.
This site contains Arabic Audio
Lessons, and Arabic Music, Films
& Pictures.
Classification
of African Languages (Barbara
F. Grimes)
This is an on-line classification
of world languages, including
African languages and ethnology
derived from the Ethnologue:
Languages of the World by
Barbara F. Grimes (ed.), and the
World Genetic Tree of Languages,
by Joseph E. Grimes, B. Bright
and Bernard Comrie.
Yamada
Web Guide to Amharic
Resources on Amharic's morphology,
teaching reources an poetry.
Dogon
Dictionary
Dogon is a group of languages
in the Niger-Congo language family
(roughly analogous to the Romance
languages in Indo-European), spoken
in Mali and Burkina Faso.
Hausa
Online Grammar
This online grammar provides basic
information about the structure
of the Hausa language explained
in a relatively non-technical
way
Luganda
Luganda, the native language of
the people of Buganda in Uganda,
developed over the centuries as
a spoken language. Its written
form is only as recent as the
arrival of the Arab and European
influence among the Baganda.
Nyakyusa
Dictionary
Nyakyusa is one of the relatively
few Bantu languages that doesn't
make use of tones, but it also
differs substantially from surrounding
languages in terms of vocabulary.
Kiswahili Home Page
(Kassim Abdullah)
Introductory Kiswahili Lessons.
Kiswahili is an African language
spoken mainly by the people of
eastern and central Africa.
Noun Classification
in Swahili (Ellen Contini-Morava)
This is a report on research in
progress on the semantics and
syntax of noun classes in Swahili.
Swahili Dictionary
This is the Internet Living Swahili
Dictionary Project known as Kamusi.
The dictionary contains 29 work
packs, each about 100 words, available
for discussion and review.
Archives
of Popular Swahili
Archives of Popular Swahili is
an electronic archive of spoken
and written Popular Swahili texts.
Popular varieties of Swahili are
used as the primary medium or
vehicle of Central-African popular
culture
Kiswahili
Language and Culture
Extensive language resources on
Swahili from University of Oregon
Tuzungumze Kiswahili: Let's
Speak Swahili (Alwiya Omar)
'Tuzungumze Kiswahili'is part
of a bigger project on East Africa
with funding from the National
Endowment for the Humanities given
to the African Studies Center
, University of Pennsylvania in
conjunction with the Department
of African and African-American
Studies and the Department of
Instructional Media Technology,
School District of Philadelphia.
Somali
Language
Resources on Somali language and
Literature.
Twi Language
Resources on Twi language and
Literature.
Wolof On-Line
Resouces on Wolof: audio samples,
conversation, links and Wolof
Course.
Yoruba
Language
Resources on Yoruba language
and Literature.
Zulu Language
Resources on Zulu language and
Literature.
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Editor: Dr. Ali B. Ali-Dinar, Ph.D.
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