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| | African Languages |
 | | Swahili is the language of the security forces and has been promoted as a possible national language. | | | The use of local languages is supported by the government. | | | Cameroon, with a population of 13.5 million (1995 estimate), is a multilingual and multiethnic society. |
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http://chora.virtualave.net/afrilang1.html
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| | African languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The family consists of more than a hundred languages spoken by 30 million people. | | | The Khoi-San languages number about 50, and are spoken by about 120,000 people. | | | The Kadu languages were formerly grouped with the Kordofanian languages, but are nowadays often considered part of the Nilo-Saharan family. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_languages
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| | MSN Encarta - African Languages |
| | Languages spoken farther to the south-east, including Maasai in Kenya, have long been called Nilo-Hamitic; recent investigations, however, appear to prove that these tongues have no direct relationship to languages of the Afro-Asiatic family, but are most closely related to the Nilotic languages. | | | Amharic (see Semitic Languages), which is spoken by around 21 million people, is the official language of Ethiopia. | | | The ancient Egyptian language, which has no living descendant, forms another branch of the Afro-Asiatic family on its own (see Coptic Language). |
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http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761565449/African_Languages.html
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| | African Local Languages |
| | Consequently, ECA's programme on promoting African languages remains a challenge for the continent and represents a real form of democratizing access to the information society. | | | This also included addressing the continent's linguistic specificities with the introduction of new technologies that ensures access for all. | | | As the use of the Internet and its resources spread, it is becomingly increasingly clear that Africans need information in their own languages to promote greater access to the information society. |
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http://www.uneca.org/aisi/all.htm
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| | African languages on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Afrikaans, English and various African languages.Nazis racism racists Nazi Youth South Africans politics boys childrenin | | | The Malayo-Polynesian family is represented by Malagasy, which is spoken on the island of Madagascar. | | | The Kwa languages, spoken chiefly in Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Nigeria, and Liberia, include Ewe, Yoruba, Igbo, Nupe, Bini, Ashanti, and possibly Ijo (which is sometimes considered a separate branch). |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/africanlng_khoisan.asp
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| | Dravidian, Mande and Elamite |
| | The theory of borrowing in ancient time can not account for these morphological, lexicological and phonetic correspondences between Dravidian, Elamite, Egyptian, Manding and Sumerian, because of geographical discontinuity. | | | This is not surprising because African languages were used by Rawlinson, to decipher the cuneiform script. | | | This -n, active participle is found in many other Black African languages including Egyptian. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Bay/7051/elam2.htm
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| | African Languages African Linguistics on the Internet |
| | The site's goal is to "promote the reading, speaking and writing of the Yoruba language PROPERLY - complete with all the required intonation and diacritic marks - on the World Wide Web." From Bis Bus International, Ontario, Canada, a private organization.whose Executive Director is Dr. Adebusola Onabajo Onayemi, an Independent Yoruba Scholar and Anesthesiologist. | | | This is a net version of the print edition which is a supp. | | | A project of the West African Research Association and the AODL, supported in part by UNESCO and Columbia University. |
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http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/lang.html
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| | Languages Research |
| | Contact danrebo@ufl.edu with questions or comments about this web site. | | | Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1969. | | | African languages : A guide to the library collection of the University of Virginia. |
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http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/langbibl.htm
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| | African Languages - Chewa, Nyanja, Kikuyu, Kpelle - (ASC)(MSU) |
| | Zambia's 1969 census states that 755,000 people, or about 17 percent of the population, speak one of the languages of the Nyanja group. | | | This language belongs to the Nyanja Group of Bantu (Guthrie G30) and is spoken in Malawi (where it is known as Chewa or Chichewa) and in Zambia (where it is known as Nyanja or Chinyanja). | | | Nyanja is an official language in Zambia, a lingua franca in Lusaka. |
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http://www.isp.msu.edu/AfrLang/language4.htm
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| | Against All Odds (English version): African Languages and Literatures into the 21st Century. Asmara, Eritrea |
| | Languages of the State and the State of Languages | | | The presentation of how African languages and literatures contribute to economic, political, and cultural empowerment; the strengthening of civil society and current, emerging democratic traditions; and governance through reforming the language of political discourse and through conceiving the African cultural response to globalization; | | | African shores have been ravaged by the battering waves of colonial and neocolonial history, but as these waves have receded, they have left behind a powerful current of the multilingual and multicultural African word that has spread across every ocean and throughout every continent. |
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http://www.allodds.outreach.psu.edu/default-eng.html
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| | African languages -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | Many of these languages are used in primary school... | | | Most African languages had no written tradition until the arrival of Christian missionaries from Europe in the second half of the 19th century. | | | It should be noted that any attempt to generalize about the nature of “African religions” risks wrongly implying that there is homogeneity among all African cultures. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9272746
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| | AfricanLanguages.com - African Languages info |
| | It is estimated that there are between 2000 and 3000 languages spoken on the African continent, with possibly as many as 8000 dialects. | | | There are many languages spoken on the African continent - by some estimates, there are over 3000 indigenous languages alone. | | | Wondering where some of those strange new difficult to pronounce place names come from, or what some of the other African place names mean? |
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http://africanlanguages.com
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| | African Languages |
| | This is usually the highlight of the program, one that both students and their friends (sometimes family members) look forward to. | | | The languages program is very popular with a total of over 100 students a year. | | | Swahili has a longer history at the University of Georgia, having been initiated in 1988. |
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http://www.uga.edu/~aflang
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| | Against All Odds: African Languages and Literatures into the 21st Century. Asmara, Eritrea |
| | Translated into as many African languages as possible and based on these principles, the Asmara Declaration is affirmed by all participants in Against All Odds. | | | African languages must take on the duty, the responsibility, and the challenge of speaking for the continent. | | | This is the first conference on African languages and literatures ever to be held on African soil, with participants from east, west, north, Southern Africa and from the diaspora and by writers and scholars from around the world. |
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http://www.allodds.outreach.psu.edu/declaration.html
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| | African Languages |
| | It is for this reason that the center is planning to offer Somali language for outreach to teachers, government, and non-government agencies. | | | There is also the Centralized Individualized Instruction/Distance Learning Center with a language laboratory that provides instructional software, computerized testing, unlimited World Wide Web access, and online links to enhance student learning and increase their contact with the cultures of the languages they study. | | | Graduate students from such departments as anthropology, political science, history, history of art, and African American and African studies, regularly enroll in the African language courses in preparation for fieldwork in Africa. |
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http://oia.osu.edu/cas/african_languages.htm
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| | African Studies: African Languages |
| | ALMA: African Language Materials Archive: A joint project of the West African Research Center (Dakar, Senegal), Columbia University, CAORC--Council of American Overseas Research Centers, and UNESCO. | | | The archive was produced as part of a pilot project launched by the West African Research Center in Dakar. | | | This document provides a linguistic profile of Bemba, a major language and cultural group of Zambia. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/langs.html
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| | Afrikanska språk vid GU |
| | Between one and two thousand languages are spoken on the African continent. | | | Speakers include department staff as well as invited scholars from all around the world. | | | Bantu-l" in which we announce news and info about books, conferences, ongoing debates, etc. (not just about Bantu languages, but all sub-Saharan languages). |
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http://www.african.gu.se/index-eng.html
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| | South African Languages isiXhosa |
| | As the other African languages it is a tonal language, other than western languages, it is governed by the noun - which dominates the sentence. | | | The Xhosa, also known as the Southern or Cape Nguni, are composed of numerous groups of people concentrated mainly in the former Transkei, Ciskei and Eastern Cape regions. | | | Around 7 196 118 people in South Africa use it as their home language. |
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http://www.cyberserv.co.za/users/~jako/lang/xho.htm
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| | Aflang directory |
| | To share some of their expertise in African languages, University of California faculty members have begun creating web sites on languages in which they specialize. | | | Over the years, African languages that students have been able to study at the University of California number in the dozens. | | | Chadic: general information on the Chadic language family, including Hausa |
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http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/aflang
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| | ALRC |
| | The ALRC will raise funds, provide facilities and support, and organize publication. | | | The ALRC will have an advisory board made up of leading scholars of African languages from universities around the world who will serve to evaluate prospective ALRC projects. | | | The ALRC will develop software which will be useful to scholars, students, and business people both inside and outside of Africa. |
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http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~seidlf/ALRC.html
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| | African Languages - Tshivenda (Venda) |
| | (Unicode is an international character set standard that supports most world languages.) By simply installing a font that includes these characters, these characters can be entered into a computer, and can also be displayed on a web page. | | | Major word processing applications such as OpenOffice and Microsoft Word do support the entering of Unicode characters. | | | A non-profit organization translating various OpenSource software packages such as OpenOffice.org and the Mozilla web browser into all official South African languages. |
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http://africanlanguages.com/venda
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| | African Language Studies at MSU |
| | Classroom work is supplemented by an advanced language laboratory, as well as by computer-assisted instruction in some languages. | | | 27 languages are offered in the learner-oriented, on-demand, and faculty-supervised program for the graduate student and research scholars, ensuring the availability of languages needed for all major regions of Africa. | | | From the many African students in the MSU community, native speakers are recruited for training to serve as tutors in the program supervised weekly by a faculty linguist. |
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http://africa.msu.edu/afrilang.htm
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| | African Languages and Literature, UW-Madison |
| | The Department's mission is also to produce graduate students who are capable of conducting original research and of providing teaching of quality in African languages, linguistics, oral traditions, and literature; students who will assure the future strength and health of these fields, who will carry our work to other institutions and countries. | | | This includes work on both graduate and undergraduate levels, and emphasizes the development and application of analytical and methodological tools that will enable students to work effectively and imaginatively in the four areas. | | | The mission of the Department of African Languages and Literature is to provide research and teaching in the areas of African languages, linguistics, literature, and oral traditions. |
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http://african.lss.wisc.edu/all
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| | BUBL LINK: African languages |
| | A collaborative work by people all over the world working to establish new dictionaries of the Swahili language, both within Swahili and between Swahili and English. | | | Topics include adventure activities, city guides, ethnic villages, languages, and national parks. | | | Quarterly African studies newsletter containing articles on current issues such as female circumcision in Africa, democracy in Botswana and pan-African language patterns. |
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http://bubl.ac.uk/link/a/africanlanguages.htm
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| | Languages |
| | Here are some links to African languages including Wolof. | | | Susu.zip Compressed file (unzip with Winzip) 86 kb | | | Wolof is one of the native languages of Senegal. |
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http://www.friendsofguinea.org/languages.shtml
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| | African Languages |
| | The African continent differs from all others by the very large number of its indigenous languages. | | | Such a high number testifies to the high degree of isolation in which the respective communities developed their specific languages. | | | Estimates range from 700 to 3000 different languages and dialects. |
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http://berclo.net/page99/99en-afr-languages.html
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| | South African Languages |
| | South African Languages Web : website dedicated to the eleven official languages of South Africa. |
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http://www.cyberserv.co.za/users/~jako/lang
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| | JSTOR: African Languages and Cultures. Supplement |
| | Please read JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use before you begin. | | | JSTOR Collections: Arts and Sciences III, Language and Literature | | | Pre- and post-digitization work on this title was completed by Suzie Cunningham, JSTOR Production Technician. |
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http://www.jstor.org/journals/14779366.html
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| | African Studies Center African Languages at Penn |
| | The main goal of the program is to provide courses in African languages and cultures to undergraduate and graduate students at Penn and the consortium colleges of Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore, as well as for other neighboring colleges and universities. | | | Welcome to the African Language Program of the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. | | | For more information about African Languages at Penn please e-mail the Language Coordinator, |
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http://www.africa.upenn.edu/afl
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| | African Languages |
| | Multilingualism, Minority Languages and Language Policy in Nigeria | | | Influence of Arabic Language on Kiswahili, with a Trilingual Dictionary (Swahili-Arabic-English) | | | Beyond the Spoken Word: An African Language Literature Experience |
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http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Publications/BCling.html
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