Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 830 p. — (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics) — ISBN: 9781108417983. This book provides an in-depth and comprehensive state-of-the-art study of 'African languages' and 'language in Africa' since its beginnings as a 'colonial science' at the turn of the twentieth century in Europe. Compiled by 56 internationally renowned scholars,...
Canada: Bibliotex, 2021. — 178 p. Language is the ability to produce and comprehend spoken and written words. The book offers an introduction to the Languages and Cultures of Africa. The overall aim of the book is to help students gain the linguistic skills necessary to function in all areas of practical need, and prepare them for advanced study of history, culture, and literature.
Afro-Pub, 1981. — 384 S. — (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Ägyptologie und Afrikanistik der Universität Wien 16; Beiträge zur Afrikanistik 13). Zur Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag meines verehrten Lehrers und Freundes P. Anton Vorbichler wollte auch ich mit einem kleinen Beitrag aus dem Bereich der Meroitistik beitragen. Daß daraus ein ganzes Buch, wenn auch nur in der...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 1415 p. — (Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics). This handbook provides a comprehensive account of the languages spoken in Ethiopia, exploring both their structures and features and their function and use in society. The first part of the volume provides background and general information relating to Ethiopian languages, including their demographic...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — xii + 252 p. This book provides an introduction to the Meroitic language and writing system, which was used between circa 300 BC and 400 AD in the kingdom of Meroe, located in what is now Sudan and Egyptian Nubia. This book details advances in the understanding of Meroitic, a language that until recently was considered untranslatable. In...
Georgetown University Press, 2015. — 160 p. — (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics). — ISBN10: 1626161526; ISBN13: 978-1626161528. People in many African communities live within a series of concentric circles when it comes to language. In a small group, a speaker uses an often unwritten and endangered mother tongue that is rarely used in school. A...
Paris: Éditions de l'ORSTOM, 1993. — 273 p. Bareto D., Ngachui E., Scruggs T. Catalog of scientific works on the languages of Cameroon (in French) Table des matières: Avant-propos. Liste et classification des langues, codes de l'Atlas linguistiqùe du Cameroun. Index par langues. Index par matières. Index par auteurs. Index des organismes et des revues, abréviations. Quelques...
UNESCO and Société Internationale de Linguistique, 1993. — 311 p. Toute langue parlée et non écrite est une langue vouée à la disparition. Grâce à cette application que vous offre Resulam, vous pouvez apprendre de manière visuelle et sonore l'Alphabet Général des Langues Camerounaises, Gabonaises, L'alphabet africain de référence (ARA), L'alphabet international africain (AIA),...
Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. — 129 p. — (Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication 10). — ISBN: 978-0-9856211-6-2, ISBN10: 985621168. Over the past 20 years, language documentation activities have been increasing all over the world. Major funding initiatives in Germany (Dokumentation Bedrohter Sprachen (DoBeS) funded by Volkswagen...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015. — 328 p. — (Typological Studies in Language). — ISBN10: 9027206902; ISBN13: 978-9027206909. Certain grammatical elements help hearers know how propositions are conceptually related: Does a given proposition advance the foregrounded event line, or not? Initiate versus continue an event chain? Indicate that one proposition belongs to a...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011. — 440 p. — ISBN10: 9027211787, ISBN13: 978-9027211781. This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as an elementary introduction to the comparative method, involving the establishment of lexical and grammatical cognates, the reconstruction...
Sense Publishers, 2014. — 149 p. — (Comparative and International Education / Comparative and International Education: a Diversity of Voices). — ISBN10: 9462099456, ISBN13: 978-9462099456. There seems to be general agreement that children learn better when they understand what the teacher is saying. In Africa this is not the case. Instruction is given in a foreign language, a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 412 p. — ISBN10: 1137015926, ISBN13: 978-1137015921. This book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary and comprehensive reference work on the often-marginalised languages of southern Africa. The authors analyze a range of different concepts and questions, including language and sociality, social and political history, multilingual government, and...
1 ebook, total pages 9. 22 MP3 files 128 kbps stereo. This Peace Corps survival course is designed to teach you the basic survival level of the Joola language when traveling in Gambia or Guinea Bissau. Lessons cover the following subjects: General Greetings Morning and Afternoon Greetings Leave Taking Personal Identification Introductions Counting Shopping Common Conversation...
Peace Corps. — iii, 111 p. This manual is competency based and contains useful expressions related to all training components such as technique, health, safety and security. This will build up your ability to communicate in local language and will bring you closer to the community with which you will work. This capacity will also enable you to know your community better. You...
Akademie-Verlag, 1979. — 56 p. The following examination for the most part originated in the preparation of a planned new edition of my “Structure of the ‘Deskriptionssätze’ in the Meroitic mortuary texts” (Hintze 1963). This new revision is desireable to me not only because of the by now not incosiderable increase in the material but also because of the changes in...
Université Stendhal, ELLUG, 1991. — 321 p. Creissels Denis. Phonological structures of Negro-African languages (in French) Table des matières: Structures syllabiques. Les systèmes vocaliques. Les systèmes consonantiques. Les alternances consonantiques. Oppositions tonales, types tonals d'unités et alternances tonales. Systèmes tonals. Systèmes tonals restreints et systèmes...
Napoli: Istituto Universitario Orientale, 1988. — 83 p. — (Supplemento n. 57 agli Annali vol. 48 1988, fasc. 4). This paper is the first attempt to study ethnolinguistically the common of Arabic loanwords in Hausa and Swahili. Nature. Man as a physical being. Man as a spiritual being. Man as a social being. Social organization and politics. Natural laws. Interjections and...
Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council Press, 2010. — XVI, 150 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7969-2300-4. The present work advances an understanding of the current status of localization with respect to ICT, as well as the need for localization in African languages and the potential to do so. Because of the nature of the topic and the range of factors involved, the research was...
Bruxelles: Institut Royal Colonial Belge, 1949. — 130 p. Carrington J.F. A Comparative Study of the Central African Gong Languages (In English) The history of gong- and drum-language investigation in Africa. Gongs used for message transmission in Central Africa. Signalling with and without a linguistic basis in Africa. Instruments other than gongs and drums used in message...
Bruxelles: Institut Royal Colonial Belge, 1950. — 73 p. Hulstaert G. Negation in the languages of the Congo (in French) Tables des matieres: Les divers morphemes négatifs. Voyelles. Négatif par réduplication. Tonalité. Encore une particularité. Tableau récapulatif.
Paris: Karthala, 2004. — 457 p. — ISBN: 978-2845865310 Cet ouvrage offre une introduction complète aux langues africaines et à leur étude. Ses douze chapitres ont été rédigés par les meilleurs spécalistes africanistes. Ils abordent les quatre grands regroupements de langues opérés par la classification moderne (Niger-Congo, Nilo-saharien, Afroasiatique et Khoisan) ainsi que les...
Paris: Orstom, ACCT, 1989. — 421 p. Les neuf études réunies dans ce volume portent sur sept langues : deux langues tchadiques ( le zulgo et le podoko ), cinq langues bantu dont deux langues grassfield ( le yemba et le mundani ) et trois langues bantu au sens strict ( le nugunu , le duala et le koozime ). L'intérêt particulier de cet ouvrage est de rassembler des études...
Bruxelles: Institut Royal Colonial Belge, 1950. — 68 p. Hulstaert G. Review of the languages of the Belgian Congo (in French) Table des matieres: Considérations générales. Remarques sur les langues en particulier. Quelques mots sur les linguae francae.
Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2010. — 327 s. The first part of the book is devoted to the classification of African languages with data on the places of their distribution, the number of speakers, status, etc., the second part - phonology, the third - syntax and semantics, and the fourth - morphology, the last part examines the evolution of African language systems....
London — Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1915. — 170 p. Meinhof K. Introduction to the study of African languages (In English) Why do We Study Primitive Languages? A Survey of African Languages and Language-Families. The Study of Sounds in Africa and Its Relation to General Phonetics. Rhythm and Melody in African Languages. The Morphological development of African Languages....
Yaoundé: Société Internationale de Linguistique, 1990. — 135 p. Gfeller E. (ed.) Multilingual Cameroon. Collection of texts in the languages of Cameroon (in English, French and Cameroonian languages) Preface / Avant-propos. Way in the past / Dans le temps. At work / Au travail. Writing / Ecriture. Wealth / Richesse. Family / Famille. Life and Death / Vie et Mort. Languages:...
F. Maspero, 1977. — 261 p. ISBN: 270710857X « À tous les niveaux de la vie sociale, les hommes parlent, échangent, communiquent. L'ethnolinguistique est l'étude des relations entre la langue, la culture et la société, considérées, soit au niveau de la langue, soit au niveau de la parole. Les études réunies dans cet ouvrage sont dues à des chercheurs africanistes qui se situent...
Oxford University Press. 2011. — 262 p. — ISBN: 0199768978; 0199769028 Secret Manipulations is the first comprehensive study of African register variation, polylectality, and derived languages. Focusing on a specific form of language change-deliberate manipulations of a language by its speakers-it provides a new approach to local language ideologies and concepts of grammar and...
Palgrave Macmillan. 2006. — 242 p. ISBN: 1403933812 The study of languages was crucial to colonial power in 18th and 19th-century South Africa. This important book examines representations of the South African Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu, revealing the ways in which colonial linguistics contributed to both the making of the colonial order and to instabilities at the heart of...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. — 368 p. — (Typological Studies in Language 87). — ISBN10: 9027206686; ISBN13: 978-9027206688. This volume deals with issues on negation patterns in languages of West Africa and the adjacent north and east. The first aim is to provide data on various aspects of negation in African languages. Although the topics addressed here reflect a...
Paris: E. Leroux, 1896-1901. — 700 p. Études sur les langues du Haut-Zambèze: textes originaux recueillis et traduits en français et précédés d'une esquisse grammaticale
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company Publication date: 2003 Format / Quality: MP3 / 176kkps ISBN: 90 272 2605 9 (Eur.) / 1 58811 421 X (US) (Hb; alk. paper) ISBN: 90 272 2606 7 (Eur.) / 1 58811 422 8 (US) (Pb; alk. paper) Providing an introduction to the linguistic study of African languages, the orientation adopted throughout this book is a...
Louvain: Peeters, 2002. — 305 p. Dans l'archipel des Bijagos, en Guinee Bissau, vit une population encore profondement ancree dans la tradition. Si sa culture a depuis longtemps ete remarquee et etudiee, sa langue n'avait en revanche fait l'objet d'aucune description. Cet ouvrage, qui presente et analyze des donnees de premiere main (recoltees au cours de quatre mois d'enquete...
Paris: Karthala, 2004. — 457 p. — ISBN: 978-2845865310. Cet ouvrage offre une introduction complète aux langues africaines et à leur étude. Ses douze chapitres ont été rédigés par les meilleurs spécalistes africanistes. Ils abordent les quatre grands regroupements de langues opérés par la classification moderne (Niger-Congo, Nilo-saharien, Afroasiatique et Khoisan) ainsi que...
Kay Williamson Educational Foundation, 2011. — 125 p. The present electronic is a fully revised and updated edition of ‘An Index of Nigerian Languages’ by David Crozier and Roger Blench (1992), which replaced Keir Hansford, John Bendor-Samuel and Ron Stanford (1976), a pioneering attempt to synthesize what was known at the time about the languages of Nigeria and their...
LOT, 2006. — 220 p. — ISBN ISBN 978-94-6093-013-3. The general objective of this thesis is to determine a typology of verbal derivation in Ethiopian Afro-asiatic languages. As a starting point I analyze the major verbal derivations of causative, middle and passive of Oromo, Amharic and Shakkinoono. These three languages serve as representatives of respectively the Cushitic,...
Peace Corps, Washington, DC, 1987. — 135 p. A language guide to Temne is designed for Peace Corps volunteers serving in Sierra Leone. It contains introductory sections about the Temnes and Temne phonology and orthography, teacher notes on the use of the manual, and 12 lessons. Each lesson consists of a dialogue or narrative, notes on classroom presentation, vocabulary and...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 112 p. — ISBN10: 0521116236. When it was first published in 1968, this monograph was among the most important contributions to the area of phonetic research in Africa since the publication of Westermann and Ward's Practical Phonetics for Students of African Languages in 1933. Drawing from a sample of sixty-one West African languages, Dr...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 368 p. — ISBN: 0199232822. This book provides a typological overview of the different manifestations of grammaticalized case systems in African languages. After defining and distinguishing case systems, Christa Konig begins a thorough analysis of case in roughly 100 African languages and reveals several features, such as tone as a marker for...
Oxford University Press, 1956. — 213 p. This volume presents a survey of the non-Bantu languages in north-eastern Africa i e. the area extending south of the Sahara, from Lake Chad (approx.) to the Indian Qcean together with those of South Africa. It thus completes the study of the non-BANTU languages of Africa begun in Volumes I and II of the Handbook of African Languages. In...
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1991. — 255 p. — ISBN10: 088312808X; ISBN13: 9780883128084. One of the areas in which many languages of Cameroon are particularly rich is their tense-aspect systems. The papers in this collection explore tense-aspect in eight Bantu and Chadic languages of Cameroon: Makaa, Kakɔ, Kɔɔzime, Nɔmaandɛ, Nugunu, Mundani, Podoko, and Mofu-Gudur.
De Gruyter, 2011. — 284 p. — ISBN10: 3110264978; ISBN13: 9783110264975. This book provides a complete grammar of the Mani language spoken in the Samu (alternate French spelling Samou) region of Sierra Leone and Guinea. The data come from a short pilot study conducted during July and August of 2000, and a larger study taking place over two years (the Mani Documentation Project...
Routledge, 2003. — 267 p. — ISBN: 0-203-42257-0. This volume (first published 1994) is a path-breaking and much needed contribution to the study of the politics of language in modern Africa. Not only does it fill a critical gap in Africanist scholarship, its theoretically sophisticated and ethnographically rich essays directly engage some of the most pressing issues within both...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 390 p. More than forty years ago it was demonstrated that the African continent can be divided into four distinct language families. Research on African languages has accordingly been preoccupied with reconstructing and understanding similarities across these families. This has meant that an interest in other kinds of linguistic relationship,...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 382 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–928674–4; ISBN 978–0–19–928675–1. This book focuses on language, culture, and national identity in Africa. Leading specialists examine countries in every part of the continent - Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Senegal, Mali, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanbia, South Africa, and the...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — XVII, 485 p. — ISBN: 0-511-03146-7. This is a comprehensive and wide-ranging guide to language and society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of pre-colonial and colonial history; contact between the different language varieties (leading to language loss, pidginization, creolization...
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company (2003) Pages: 286 ISBN: 90 272 2605 9 (Eur.) / 1 58811 421 X (US) (Hb; alk. paper) ISBN: 90 272 2606 7 (Eur.) / 1 58811 422 8 (US) (Pb; alk. paper) Providing an introduction to the linguistic study of African languages, the orientation adopted throughout this book is a descriptive-structural-typological one, as opposed to a...
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publication date: 2007 (1st Ed) Africa is iconic wildlife, stunning geography, wonderous architecture, and bustling cities - and well over an estimated 1000 languages. Here we give you the 13 that will open your mind - and mouth - to this amazing continent. From Afrikaans to Zulu, talk your way to where you want to go, and what you want to do. Immerse...
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