"a cooperative effort of the Title VI Africa National Resource Centers,
funded by the U.S. Department of Education." "offers performance-based instruction in a variety of African languages by experienced and trained instructors who are native speakers of the languages they teach. Classes are held four hours per day over a period of eight weeks, for a total of 140 hours. Students will earn credits equivalent to one academic year of language instruction." http://scali.afrst.uiuc.edu/
"a cooperative effort of the Title VI Africa National Resource Centers,
funded by the U.S. Department of Education." http://www.indiana.edu/~afrist/scali/
"a short-term working group for collaboration on certain technical
aspects of use of African languages in ICT. Its purposes include: 1) facilitate
communication among individuals working on codepages for scripts of African
languages; 2) promote collaboration on other projects on technical aspects
of use of extended Latin-based character sets and non-Western scripts on
computers and the internet; and 3) contribute to laying the groundwork for
a separate, broader-topic, and open-archive list(s) on African languages
and ICT." Hosted by Bisharat. http://lists.kabissa.org/mailman/listinfo/a12n-collaboration
and/
One of its goals is
to promote the use of African languages in African intergovernmental organisations.
Includes background on past Organization of African Unity decisions regarding
African languages. Founded through the initiative of the President of
Mali,
Alpha Oumar KONARE. Has text of the OAU's
Language plan of action for africa. Based in Bamako, Mali. [KF]
http://www.acalan.org/
Published by the Dept of Oriental and African Languages, Göteborg
University, Göteborg, Sweden. Full text articles are
on-line. http://www.african.gu.se/aa/
"The African Language Teachers Association is an organization dedicated
to the teaching and learning of African languages. Its membership is open
to individuals and organizations that share this interest." http://www.councilnet.org/pages/CNet_Members_ALTA.html
Information on South Africa's eleven offiicial languages. Translation
sources, dictionaries, radio stations, links to related sites, maps. Hosts
an online Northern Sotho) - English Dictionary. Origins of some South African
place names as provided by David
Joffe. Based in Pretoria, South Africa. http://africanlanguages.com
E-journal sponsored by the International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS) and published by Africa Resource Center, Inc. Articles include: Language, Culture, Science, Technology and Philosophy - Art and 'Art' in Africa: Conceptual Clarification, Confusion or Colonization? - Race and Racism in the Works of David Hume. http://www.africanphilosophy.com/index.htm
A directory service. Has a Yoruba language page. Based in Norway, was
established in 1998 by Anthony Adebayo Martins, Dele Olawole nd Orevaoghene
C. Obaro." http://www.africaservice.com
An
introduction to African music in 100 CDs is a directory arranged
by country, name of artists or groups, CD titles, artists (including
compilations), style of music, instrument, language,
type of music, and label. Includes short articles. This is a net version
of the print edition which is a supp. to Afrique en scenes,
No. 6 (Paris: Afrique en Creations, 1996, 60 p.).
The CDs by language: http://www.ina.fr/africart/100CD/index_langue.html
Afrique Orale
- Archives sonores et ressources documentaires de la tradition orale en
Afrique
In French. Includes a database of citations to the oral recordings held
by research institutes such as the Centre d'études linguistiques
et historiques par tradition orale (CELHTO) in Niamey, Niger and the full
text of the 1236 Charte de Kurukan Fuga, un document fondateur de l'empire
du Mali. Has links to papers such as "La Tradition Orale : de la collecte
à la numérisation" by A. Raphaël NDIAYE, an audio
file of Boubou Hama on African history, links to a site about Amadou Hampâté
BA. [KF] http://www.africa-orale.org/
In English, French, Tigrinya. An international conference and festival.
Chairs are Ama Ata Aidoo, Mbulelo Mzamane, Nawal El Saadawi, Ngugi wa Thiong’o.
Web site has a photo tour of Eritrea. http://www.allodds.outreach.psu.edu/
Journal published by the interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Southern
African Literature and Languages, University of Durban-Westville, South
Africa. Volumes Vol 2. No. 2. 1995 and Vol 6. No. 1. 1999 are online. [KF]
http://www.nymphs.mlsultan.ac.za/alternation.htm
The scanned text of the 1997 edition of the ALA-LC Romanization Tables:
Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts, approved by the Library
of Congress and the American Library Association. Includes, in Adobe pdf,
Amharic,
Arabic,
Tigrinya.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html
Many full text books, in Adobe PDF, in Wolof, Mandinka, Pulaar.
Each title has full bibliographic information. A project of the West African
Research Association and the AODL,
supported in part by UNESCO and Columbia University. The WARA site describes
the project. http://www.aiys.org/aodl/public/access/alma_ebooks/index.php
Andersen's Sierra Leone Page includes Krio proverbs and short stories
in Krio. http://www.Sierra-Leone.org/proverbs.html
Aramati, African
Languages and Multimedia Applications
Online courses for learning Swahili. Has a demo but the main site requires
payment / password. "Subscriptions allow you unlimited access to site
materials for the time span purchased. Free technical support with issues
concerning the site." Purchase subscriptions through Amazon.com. Site
maintained by Dr. John Mugane. [KF] http://www.aramati.com/
In English and French. "Adapted Farming in West Africa." Summarizes
spatial data related to sustainable land use planning." Maps of Political
borders, Population, Topography, Climate: Precipitation, Soils, Vegetation,
Urbanisation. Has a brief history of Niger, Benin language map. ArcView
files. Users have "free access to all basic data underlying the maps."
Editors are K. Stahr, K. Vennemann, L. Herrmann, M. Von Oppen. The program
is funded by the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft" (German Research
Foundation) and the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. [KF] http://www.uni-hohenheim.de/~atlas308/
Dictionary of Nigerian pidgin english. "In this compilation I have
limited myself to what I would call 'Lagos Pidgin' ...The three major Nigerian
languages namely Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa feature prominently in Pidgin English
in general, however with Lagos being historically a Yoruba city 'Lagos Pidgin'
consists of a disproportionately high number of Yoruba words." Babawilly
is a writer and "siddon comedian." http://www.ngex.com/personalities/babawilly/dictionary/default.htm
Bade,
David W., compiler. Books in African Languages in the Melville J. Herskovits
Library of African Studies, Northwestern University: A Catalog.
(Evanston, Ill: Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, c2000.
Vols. 1-2 online (1,045 pages.) (PAS Working Paper, 8.) In
Adobe pdf. (takes a very long time to load). Print edition distributed by Northwestern University Press.
Volume 3 only in hardcopy. This is the 2002 Conover-Porter
Award Co-Winner for excellence in an Africana bibliography or reference
work. http://www.northwestern.edu/african-studies/working%20papers/wp8bade.pdf and http://www.northwestern.edu/african-studies/publications_workingpapers.html
Author: Jean Barbot. Editor: P. E. H. Hair (Paul Edward Hedley).
[Liverpool] : Centre of African Studies, University of Liverpool, 1992.
43 p. (Parallel text in French, English, Wolof, Fula, Twi and Ewe).
(Privately produced and circulated by the late Paul Hair). Full text of
the book. AUniversity
of Wisconsin Libraries Africana Digitization Project. See the Copyright
notice for use. http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Africana.Hair01
The British Broadcasting Corp.'s schedules and radio frequencies for its
broadcasts in Hausa, Kinyarwanda/Kirundi, Somali, and Swahili is at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/
Links to online African dictionaries and grammars from
Professor Beard, Director of the Russian and Linguistic Programs at Bucknell
University, Lewisburg, PA. http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction2.html#africa
Bisharat "A
language, technology & development initiative"
In French. " documents issus des réunions et conférences
sur l'harmonisation de transcription et des stratégies de promotion
des langues africaines qui ont eu lieu en Afrique dans les années
60 à 80." http://www.bisharat.net/Documents/
Has 30-hour each Yoruba and Zulu programs at all levels for $695 each
course. Its Bookstore (using Amazon.com) offers language titles but you
would do better to search Amazon directly
which has a larger selection. To order books, see also the Bookdealers
Section of this guide. http://www.boslang.com/
Has sections on Speaking and Writing Luganda, The Luganda Society, Luganda
Grammar, Reviews of Select Luganda Books, A Luganda Phrasebook, Suggested
Further Reading. Maintained by Mukasa E. Ssemakula. http://www.buganda.com/language.htm
With an Introduction by Jay Spaulding. "The Oldest Dictionary of
an African Language." Dictionary orginally published by Carradori in
the 17th century, in Italian. On the web site, Yourdictionary.com, based
in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. http://www.yourdictionary.com/cgi-bin/nlkup.pl
Has full text papers
on language issues in Africa, on Pan-Africanism, and on develoment. Publishes
Tinabantu - Journal of African National Affairs. Carries discussion
topics on AIDS, maize, improving soil fertility, the neem tree (control
of agricultural pests) in English and at least four African languages.
[KF] http://www.casas.co.za
"started in 1994 by Larry Hyman and John Lowe to produce... a lexicographic
database to support and enhance the theoretical, descriptive, and historical
linguistic study of the languages in the important Bantu family." Download
the Bantu MapMaker for making linguistic maps on a Mac.
It comes with maps of Africa and an inventory of about 500 Bantu languages
names with their locations. Has searchable dictionaries
in many languages, a searchable Bantu bibliography, a searchable
Tanzania Language Survey and links to related sites. http://www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/
"an informal grouping of professional academic linguists who have
worked on the Dagaare language." Introduction to the language, directory
of scholars, full text issues of the Journal of Dagaare Studies, mailing list, related links. "Dagaare
is the language of the Dagaaba (plural of Dagao), a predominantly agricultural
community of approximately one million people located in north-western Ghana
(formerly the Gold Coast) called the Upper-West Region, and in south-western
Burkina-Faso (formerly Upper Volta)." [KF] http://www.hku.hk/linguist/staff_ab.DagaareLinguist.html
Germany's international radio offers programs in Amharic, English,
Hausa, Kiswahili, etc. For those with sound cards, speakers, and
the RealPlayer plug-in, one can listen to their "Africa Report",
15 minutes of news from reporters in Africa. http://www.dwelle.de/language.html
Interactive activities for learning languages. The Swahili Activities Page has interactive games for learning the Swahili language. Created by Craig Gibson. Learning games also in Afrikaans, Arabic, Somali. http://www.digitaldialects.com/
Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics, and African Studies at Michigan
State University. Has course syllabi, some full text documents such as "The
Role of Culture In the Language Classroom" by David Dwyer, Antonia
Schleicher, University of Wisconsin, Lioba Moshi, University of Georgia.
http://www.msu.edu/~dwyer/
Ede Yoruba-L
Discussion list for teachers and scholars of the Yoruba language. Connected
with the Yoruba Language Task Force of the African Language Teachers’
Assoc. The list owner is Ojo Akinloye. To subscribe, send e-mail to: listproc@cornell.edu
In the message area, put: subscribe Ede Yoruba-L YourName
Open source online Ekegusii-English dictionary. Ekegusii is the language of the Gusii in Kenya. Site founded by a student at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
http://www.ekegusii.org
K-12 classes can locate schools in Africa
which are interested in communicating by e-mail, IRC Chat, in English, French,
Swahili, Afrikaans, and other languages. Based in Easton, Connecticut. http://www.epals.com/
In French, some English. Find full text journal articles
(also books, theses) through a keyword Search. Examples of articles
online - Développement des langues africaines :
De Yaoundé à Zanzibar;
Des lexiques en langues africaines (sängo, wolof, lingala)
pour l'utilisateur de l'ordinateur;
La traduction en anglais de la littérature francophone
: perception du phénomène au Nigéria;
Literary Translation in Africa : The Nigerian Experience;
Erudit is a Canadian university sponsored project to disseminate the results
(journals, books, theses, preprints) of university research. http://www.erudit.org/
From the publication, Ethnologue: Languages of the World,
13th ed. (Dallas, Tx.: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1996), edited by
Barbara F. Grimes. For each
African country provides no. of speakers, dialects, linguistic affiliation,
a language map, etc.
Africa: http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/countries/Africa.html
Main Page: http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/ethnologue.html
"The main objectives of this journal is to make the works of Nigerian
scholars in the field of Education more visible to the rest of the world."
"The criteria for selection will be the quality of the articles and
the depth of their contribution to educational research or educational
policy and practice not only in Nigeria but in other parts of the world."
Full text articles [see links at the top] include "Languages
And The National Policy On Education." [KF] http://fafunwafoundation.tripod.com/fafunwafoundation/id1.html
Searchable database of secondary and college level language proficiency exams for languages other than English. "it currently contains more than 140 tests in 63 languages. The database is maintained by the National Capital Language Resource Center, a joint project of Georgetown University, The George Washington University, and the Center for Applied Linguistics." http://www.cal.org/calwebdb/fltest
Full text of African language manuals online. Free online language tapes. This is not a government site. "These courses were developed by the United States government and are in the public domain." Site maintained by Glen D. Fellows. http://www.fsi-language-courses.com/default.aspx
Has for example Yoruba Basic Course
Full text of the manual. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Foreign Language Institute, 1963. 381 pages in PDF. "These courses were developed by the United States government and are in the public domain." Site maintained by Glen D. Fellows. http://www.fsi-language-courses.com/Courses/Yoruba/Basic/FSI%20-%20Yoruba%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Student%20Text.pdf
Razia Nanji, formerly Univ. of Florida African Language Selector, has prepared a contents list for the George Fortune collection (language and literature, Xhosa, Swahili, Ndebele, Zulu, Chinyanja. Lozi, Luvale, esp. Shona and other languages): http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/fortidx.htm
Has the table of contents. On language and ethnography. Published by the
Institut für Afrikanische Sprachwissenschaften, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität,
Frankfurt / Main. http://www.koeppe.de/html/e_fab.ht
"Ancestry information on the Baganda - members of the kingdom nation of
Buganda (Uganda, East Afrrica)." Has an online English - Luganda translation dictionary.
Ganda culture information. Names of cities, villages, and other places in Buganda. [KF] http://www.gandaancestry.com
Geider, Thomas - A Bibliography of Swahili Literature, Linguistics,
Culture and History
Full text online. In
Adobe pdf, 101 pages. No. 10, 2003 of the online journal Swahili
Forum, published at the Department of Anthropology and African
Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. http://www.uni-mainz.de/~ifeas/SwaFo/
Mainly in German. Includes staff, courses, research, their extensive publications
list, the tables of contents of their journal, Frankfurter
Afrikanistische Blätter, their library, etc. http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/ifas/ifas-eng.htm
Guosa is a lingua franca created to unify Nigeria and West Africa. Audio lessons may be heard every Saturday at 10.00 a.m. Pacific Time on Edo Radio. Maintained by Alex G. Igbineweka, Director of Edo & Guosa Languages, American Heritage University, 2035 North D Street, San Bernardino, CA 92405. http://www.guosa-language.com/
Short news summaries prepared from Kenyan newspapers, the Kenya Broadcasting
Co., Kenya Television Network, KTN. The news is not supplied directly by
the newspapers. Includes Provincial news and news
in Swahili. http://www.kenyaweb.com/news/kswahili.html
Discussion forum on extended character sets, fonts for West African languages.
The list owner is Don Osborn of www.bisharat.net. http://www.quicktopic.com/8/H/JxKHyg9ccPUVB
Site from the Univ.
of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Dept. of Linguistics with information
on the Hausa language, its history, information on orthography, a short
bibliography, a couple of sound files for those with sound cards. One can
join a Hausa
mailing list. http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/aflang/hausa/hausa.html
Hausa-L
E-mail discussion list about the Hausa language. Hosted by Minnesota State
University-Akita. To subscribe send e-mail to: macjordomo@msua.ac.jp
In the body of the message type only: subscribe hausa-l
your_first_name your_last_name
An Internet Course in the Department of African Languages and Literature
at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Instructor: Linda Hunter. http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/all/hausa.htm
Annotated Swahili corpus on-line. (12 million words) of Swahili text. Prose text from Swahili newspapers, the news site of Deutsche Welle, and books of various genres. Access is permitted by application for research purposes. Annotated using the Swahili Language Manager developed by Arvi Hurskainen, Professor of African languages. Maintained at the University of Helsinki, Institute for Asian and African Studies and Finland's Center for Scientific Computing. http://www.csc.fi/kielipankki/aineistot/hcs/index.phtml.en
Moderated discussion list on Hausa, neighboring and related languages,
literature and culture. Sponsored by H-Net, Michigan State University. "It
began as a list concerned exclusively with language, but it has also hosted
discussions ranging from traditional, Arabic-based orthography to computerization
of Hausa, from grammar to culture and other subjects." Moderator is
John E. Philips. http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~hausa/.
To join H-HAUSA, send a message to: listserv@h-net.msu.edu (with no signatures or styled text, word wrap off for long lines) and
only this text: sub H-HAUSA firstname lastname, institution
A moderated discussion list in Swahili and English. On the use, teaching,
promotion and general advancement of the Swahili language and culture. http://www.h-net.org/~swahili/
"catalog of language-related Internet resources." Categories
include Language Lessons, Collections of Links, Linguistics, Conferences,
Multilingual Resources, Dictionaries, Organizations, Free Translation, Teaching
Resources. http://www.ilovelanguages.com
Search for published materials and field recordings in African languages.
There is a list of Periodicals on African Linguistics and in African Languages
and a list of films in African languages. http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/afrlg/
A project to "preserve and make accessible a set of linguistic
field notes [on the Nuer language] recorded by
Eleanor Vandevort, who was a missionary in the South Sudan between
1949 and 1963." Includes the full text of the book, A
Leopard Tamed, by Eleanor Vandevort, a biography of Eleanor Vandevort,
by Dr. Marion Frank-Wilson, a History of Colonial and Missionary
Linguistics in the Southern Sudan, by Dr. Edward Miner, Pedagogical
Grammar of Nuer, slides of life in Southern Sudan, and
a bibliography. [KF] http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/nuer/
In French. Based at l'Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence. Affiliated
with l'Université de la Réunion. Publishes a newsletter, Gazet sifon
blé/ Lavwa ka bay. http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/iecf/
In French. Publishes printed maps, atlases, cdroms. On-line maps can be
downloaded. Maps include linguistic and other maps of Province
Extrême-Nord Cameroun.
Has SPHAERA, a database
of citations to African maps from sources world-wide; the same citations
can be accessed through a clickable
map. There is a catalog
of maps produced by the IRD. Provides a
GIS software program, Savane. The IRD,
l’Institut de recherche pour le développement, was (formerly
ORSTOM), based in Paris, France. [KF] http://www.bondy.ird.fr/carto/labo.html
Intec College, Cape Town, South Africa, offers a distance education courses
in Xhosa and Zulu. Email contact: info@intec.edu.za
http://www.intec.edu.za/courses/language/language.htm
Inter Press Service, known for its informative news articles, has a keyword
searchable database of news articles in Kiswahili. http://ips.org/Kiswahili/Index.htm
Free on-line children's books in English, Swahili,
Shona, Arabic "a five-year project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the
Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to create a digital library
of international children's books." Based at the Univ. of Maryland,
College Park, Maryland. [KF] http://www.icdlbooks.org/
Has the table of contents. Produces special issues such as "Sociolinguistics
in West Africa," "Language and Ethnicity in the New South Africa,"
"Sociolinguistic Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa." Published by Walter
de Gruyter GmbH & Co., Berlin, Germany. Libraries pay $242.00 a year. http://www.degruyter.com/journals/ijsl/index.html
In Zulu. Page provides links to other Zulu pages and seeks to "increase
the use of Zulu on the internet in South Africa." Maintained by Benjamin
Fredlund who grew up speaking Zulu and now studies civil engineering in
England. http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/6570/
Fonts designed for typing Arabic on a Macintosh; but they can also be
used to type Yoruba on a Mac. From the Univ. of Bergen
(Norway) Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/files/files.html
Closed site, access is by password. Online journal of the Univ.
of Wisconsin, Dept. of African Languages and Literature. Contains
original work by students in Arabic, Hausa, Swahili and Yoruba. http://african.lss.wisc.edu/all/jarida.htm
Publishes on the "arts and sciences that bear on the language, culture
and society of the Dagaaba of West Africa." "Dagaare is the language
of the Dagaaba (plural of Dagao), a predominantly agricultural community
of approximately one million people located in north-western Ghana...called
the Upper-West Region, and in south-western Burkina-Faso....
Has links to related sites such as an "on-line dictionary
or lexical resource base of the basic vocabulary items in Dagaare with Cantonese
and English equivalents." Based at the University of Hong Kong, Hong
Kong. [KF] http://www.hku.hk/linguist/staff_ab.DagaareJournal.html
Journal of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya. Published by Routledge. Articles in the humanities and social sciences, especially archaeology, history, linguistics and anthropology of Eastern Africa. Encourages interdisciplinary analysis. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t770239509~tab=summary
Full text articles. Published by Language
and Popular Culture in Africa, an internet project set up by
Johannes Fabian and Vincent de Rooij of the Department of Sociology and
Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/lpca/jlpca/index.html
Web site of the print journal which began publication in 1986. Has the
table of contents with abstracts of articles plus selected items online
such as "Genitival Structures in Krio," by Dudley K. Nylander,
Fourah Bay College (University of Sierra Leone). http://www.siu.edu/departments/cola/ling/index.htm
Kagan is the African Studies Bibliographer, University of Illinois Library,
Champaign/Urbana. The report was prepared for the 61st IFLA General Conference,
August 1995. http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/IV/ifla61/61-kaga.htm
Cooperative scholarship project, begun at Yale University, now part of the World Language Documentation Centre, based in Wales, U.K. An online
dictionary which can be constantly updated. http://www.kamusiproject.org
A mailing list exists for those wishing to contribute to the project. To
join send e-mail to KAMUSI-L@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu
In the message area, type: subscribe KAMUSI-L lastname firstname
Sayings and proverbs in Kiswahili which appear on kangas, the cotton dress
worn in East Africa. This page prepared by Hassan Ali, a Ph.D. student in
electrical engineering at the Univ. of Ottawa. Has a link to a history
of the kanga by Odemari S. Mbuya..
http://aix1.uottawa.ca:80/~hassan/kanga.html
"kasahorow.org is focused on propagating technical standards for African languages." Alphabets for Akan, Ga-Dangme, Gbe, Hausa, Igbo, Mande, Yoruba. Keyword searchable dictionaries for Akan, Ewe, Ga-Dangme, Hausa, Igbo, Vai, Wolof, Yoruba. "Started as the kasahorow Dictionary Project for the Twi and Fanti languages...... has transitioned from a Twi-Fanti-English dictionary, into an Akan languages dictionary....." http://www.kasahorow.com/
"non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of the Kente
cloth and Kente accessories around the world." Sells kente cloth. Includes
a history of kente (in tiny print), Twi
translations. Holds an annual Kente Cloth Festival. http://www.kente.net/home.shtml
Produced Bongoland, a film in Swahili
about the experiences of an African immigrant to America. By independent
filmmaker Josiah Kibira. http://www.kibirafilms.com
Type "Nigeria specific alphabets like Å Æ
Ê Î Ð Ô Û Ý Þ Ñ and currency
sign ¦ on a computer and in any software application..." "To
correctly produce the special Nigerian alphabets, you need to either
purchase KBD software and Keyboard or use web font embedding to reflect
these alphabets." Based in Framingham, Massachusetts. http://www.konyin.com/
The Terralingua
web site on endangered languages has a short piece on the KyaNgonde language
contributed by Walusako A. Mwalilino. Terralingua seeks to preserve the
world's linguistic and biological diversity. The site has links to information
on endangered languages. http://cougar.ucdavis.edu/nas/terralin/kyangond.html
In French. Site for African language research in France.
Has a directory of researchers in African languages, (by African
language, by African country), includes lists of their publications, courses
taught. Has bibliographies (by African country, by title, by type),
a survey of French research centers for African languages, recent publications,
conferences, etc. http://llacan.cnrs-bellevue.fr/
"The main aim of LPCA is to document and further the study of expressions
of popular language and culture in Africa." Maintained by Johannes
Fabian and Vincent de Rooij of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
University of Amsterdam. [KF] http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/lpca/
Has samples of 2000 languages. "Every sample includes 4 parts: (1)
a sample image, (2) an English translation, (3) the speaking countries and
populations, (4) the language's family and branch. The Language Museum is
constructed and maintained by Zhang Hong, an internet consultant and amateur
linguist in Beijing China." http://www.language-museum.com/
Lists all languages in Zambia alphabetically and by the Guthrie classification.
For most languages provides a bibliography including journal articles. Clicking
on the Zambia map produces a list of languages spoken in each province.
Created by Lee S. Bickmore, on the Dept. of Anthropology faculty at the
University at Albany (SUNY), Albany, New York.
http://www.albany.edu/~lb527/LOZ.html
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.
http://www.learnyoruba.com/orthography_1.htm
" a research network devoted to the classification of the world's
languages and dialects, the study and promotion of multilingualism...."
Has "extracts
from the recently published 'Linguasphere Register of the World's Languages
and Speech Communities' including: the Mandic (Mande) languages spoken
in West Africa and the Inner-Bantu languages (east and south) spoken in
Central and Southern Africa." Linguists are invited to send comments
on the extracts. The Linguasphere
Press sells the 2 vol. Linguasphere Register at the site ($175
or $275 for online version). Directed by David
Dalby. Includes Dalby's Language
Map of Africa and the adjacent islands, a directory of African language
department sites, discussion lists, journals, an annotated directory of
general language sites, and a table of the world's major languages (with
nos. of speakers). [KF] http://www.linguasphere.org
Page archiving messages from a discussion list for linguists, has Africa-related
content. Their tables
of contents page includes the journal, "Linguistique Africaine".
http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/
Fonts for over 630 languages
for Windows and Macintosh computers. Has a free newsletter. Licenses fonts
for embedding in Adobe PDF files. Based in Edmonds, Washington. http://www.linguistsoftware.com/
"This is a project that aims to translate Linux GUI such as KDE and GNOME
and popular software such as Open Office, Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird
into the Igbo language."
In Afrikaans (and a little English). News about new books, book reviews,
profiles of writers, book and publishing events, the language debate, essays
/ opinion pieces, films, theatre, music, gay literature, Xhosa, Zulu and
more. Based in Stellenbosh, South Africa. http://www.litnet.co.za/
Site maintained by Michael
Olteanu, who has a Master of Sciences in Computer Engineering and "spent
five years in the death camps of the Romanian Gulag" and by Christus
Rex, Inc., a private, non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination
of information on works of art preserved in churches, cathedrals and monasteries
all over the world. http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/
A multilingual translation dictionary. Translates Afrikaans, Swahili and
Zulu to English and vice versa. Has a table of each country's national language
with the ISO-country code and the numerals from 1-10 in Afrikaans and Swahili.
http://www.majstro.com
By Valentin Vydrine and T. G. Bergman. Cartographer: Matthew Benjamin.
On the site of the Mande
Studies Association. http://www.swt.edu/anthropology/mansa/mande_map.htm
Prof.
Thomas Bassett working with a technical staff has a map showing the
Mande subgroups and languages. Suggestions for changes or additions can
be sent to Prof. Bassett. http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~j-domier/gif/mande.html
Translated into Zulu by Brian Ramadiro. With a foreword by Neville
Alexander. ([Egoli]: WOSA (Workers' Organisation for Socialist Action [2002]
60 pages. On the web site of Voice
of the Turtle, an online journal of left-wing politics and culture.
http://www.voiceoftheturtle.org/library/Communist%20Manifesto%20in%20Zulu.pdf
Describes the academic program, faculty, etc. Offers courses on campus
in 29 African languages
and has a summer intensive language institute. http://isp.msu.edu/AfrLang/
"a project for the national US/ED Title VI community." http://elctl.msu.edu/
Has - LCTLs offered in the US: Data on foreign language course offerings and enrollments in the U.S. by world region. Priorities in teaching African and other LCTLs: includes a Report on Prioritizing Instruction in African Languages with a
categorization of 92 top African
languages Database of Electronic Materials for Teaching & Learning the LCTLs: a database of digital resources for learning and teaching less commonly taught languages (web sites for dictionaries, glossaries, language learning exercises, etc.)
Has a selection of dictionaries, language learning books (including the
Foreign Service Institute cassettes and books) and tapes. Included are Amharic,
Chinyanja, Fula, Hausa, Igbo, Kirundi, Lingala, More, Pulaar, Shona, Somali,
Sotho, Swahili, Tigrini, Twi, Yoruba, Zulu. Based in Seattle, WA. Contact:
Ken Tomkins. http://www.esl.net/mbt
"Manden people live mainly in West Africa, however other people of
Manden origin can be found as far as India, and Bangladesh. They are also
known as Bamanan, Dioula, Maninka-Mory, Maninka, Mandingo, Garo etc."
Has an introduction to N'ko, the writing system, alphabet, etc. http://www.nkoinstitute.com/
In N'ko and English. "N'ko is an alphabet created in West Africa
by the Guinean scholar Souleymane Kanté in 1949. It was designed
to accurately transcribe African tonal languages with special attention
to tones that cannot be transcribed with the Latin alphabet. It is used
mainly by West African speakers of Mande languages, such as Maninka, Bambara,
Dioula and their dialects." http://www.kanjamadi.com/
Published by the Nordic Association of African Studies. "a refereed journal of African Studies, appearing
three times per year. Has appeared as a printed version since 1992, but
since 2004 only digitally. Full text articles since 1992 are on-line." Many articles on African linguistics. Search online issues by keyword. http://www.njas.helsinki.fi
Extensive books and electronic publications program. Publications in English,
Swedish, French. Some titles are available free, in Adobe pdf. For example
has the full text of Language, Democracy and Education in Africa,
by Birgit Brock-Utne, (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. Discussion Papers No 15).
2002. 46 p. In
Adobe pdf. [KF] http://www.nai.uu.se/webbshop/ShopGB/index.html
The Nyakyusa live in Tanzania and Malawi. Has a bibliography on the Nyakyusa
including journal articles, stories in Nyakyusa, information on a Nyakyusa
dictionary for sale produced by a team including Knut Felberg maintainer
of the page. http://home.online.no/~felberg/nyakyusa/nyakyusa.htm
NGO, created, in 2002, as a partnership of the African Union, UNESCO, and Ford Foundation.
Monitors cultural trends and national cultural policies and enhances their
integration in development. Has the full text of their newsletter, OCPA
News, meeting
reports, documents (such as - Language Policies in Africa [1997] (121 p. in PDF), South Africa's White Paper on Arts, Culture and Heritage 1996 (MS Word doc), the African Renaissance, South Africa and the World, by Thabo Mbeki).
National cultural policies,
and working papers, etc. Full text issues of their cultural newsletter, OCPA News. Based in Maputo, Mozambique. [KF] http://www.ocpanet.org/
Produced a free Office software suite in Swahili, "Jambo
OpenOffice". The suite is based on OpenOffice;
the Swahili project was led by Alberto
Escudero. They
also produced a Swahili version of Tux Paint, a popular free and open source drawing
program for children; its called TuKsi
Koti la Rangi. Is also producing a Swahili IT glossary.
Open Swahili Localization Project: http://www.kilinux.org
Jambo Open Office:
http://www.o.ne.tz
Sells an Oromo word processor, Oromiffa. It includes a thesaurus which
provides synonyms using Qubee transcription. Create and edit documents in
Oromo. They can also provide custom programming. Based in Clarkston, Oregon.
http://www.oromosoft.com/
In English and French. Wiki on African writing systems, profiles of African languages, ICT and localisation situations of all countries of Africa, sources for fonts, keyboards, language maps, legislation, country ICT profiles. Supported by the IDRC, Kabissa, and Bisharat. http://www.panafril10n.org/
Software program for Windows PCs. "an automatic language identifier that quickly recognizes the language of any text, phrase or even single words." "Recognizes more than 400 languages" including many African languages. From Likasoft, a company based in Cyprus. http://www.polyglot3000.com/
In French. Full text of the book on the French language in CAR. (Imprint:
Vanves : EDICEF, c1997. 299 pages) Includes general information on the CAR,
its history, linguistic policy during the colonial period
and after independence. Has a bibliography (including journal
articles and Mémoire de Licence from the Université de
Bangui) and a list of journals and newspapers with background
on each title. [KF] http://www.textes-integraux.refer.org/centra/
A bibliography on Malagasy language and linguistics by Dr. Randriamasimanana of University of Oxford, Center for Philology, Linguistics & Phonetics, U.K. It includes journal articles. Maintained on the web site of University of Oslo, Norway. [KF] http://folk.uio.no/janengh/gassisk/
Has rules of the game, layli, and software to play the game (similar
to mancala), a list of books on Somaliland, a Somali-English-Italian
online dictionary. Based in Pisa, Italy. http://www.redsea-online.com/
"Le Rifal a été créé en 2000 par le
regroupement institutionnel du Rint (Réseau international de néologie
et de terminologie) et du Riofil (Réseau international des observatoires
francophones de l’inforoute et du traitement
informatique des langues),...." Publishes Cahiers
du RIFAL. RIFAL
members include the main linguistic bodies in Francophone
Africa. Based at
Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie, Paris, France. http://www.rifal.org/
In French. Full text of the book. (Vanves : EDICEF, c1993. 143 p.) Has
a short bibliography. [KF] http://www.textes-integraux.refer.org/maurice/accueil.htm
Computational management of Swahili.
SALAMA is "a computational environment for handling Swahili
text. Includes morphological, syntactic and semantic analysis of text,
including rule-based disambiguation. Applications: a spell checker,
morphological and syntactic tagger, as well as tools for dictionary
compilation. The most recent applications include machine translation from
Swahili to English."
Maintained at the University of Helsinki. http://www.njas.helsinki.fi/salama
In Sängö and French. Site of the Association pour la prommotion
du sängö to promote use of the Sängö language, the
Central African Republic's national language. Has a bibliography
of publications on Sängö, prose
and poetry, discussion
list, annotated links to related sites. The owner is Marcel
Diki-Kidiri, reseracher at the CNRS
and author of many linguistic works. [KF] http://sango.free.fr
A software company, based in Richardson, Texas, has produced Hikaadiye,
a Somali/English word processing program which includes a Somali spell checker.
They also produce Tarjume software, which translates from Somali to English
and vice verse. The software runs on Windows 95, 98 or NT. . http://www.somitek.com/
Provides the Afrikaans (English, Portuguese, etc.) words, text only,
no audio files, for sounds made by animals. Site maintained by Catherine
Ball, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown
University. http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/animals/animals.html
"oral tales, histories, and poems from among the Nguni peoples: the Xhosa and Zulu in South Africa, the Swati in Swaziland, and the Ndebele in the southern part of Zimbabwe. Collected by Professor Harold Scheub, Department of African Languages and Literature, UW-Madison. From the late 1960s into the 1970s. Text is keyword searchable. Includes audio files. From the University of Wisconsin Library, Madison, Wisconsin. http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/SouAfrVc/
In French. " La revue Sudlangues est destinée aux universitaires,
enseignants, chercheurs et étudiants intervenant dans le secteur
des sciences du langage." E-journal published by la Faculté
des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop,
Dakar (Sénégal). Full text articles. http://www.refer.sn/spip/sudlangues/
Tables of contents. Features African langauges and history. Based at Institut
für Afrikanische Sprachwissenschaften, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität,
Frankfurt / Main. http://www.koeppe.de/html/e_sugia.htm
Published at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes
Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. Annual journal. Issues from 2003 are
only online. Table of contents for older issues. No. 10, 2003 is "A
Bibliography of Swahili Literature, Linguistics, Culture and History"
by Thomas Geider (in
Adobe pdf, 101 pages). http://www.uni-mainz.de/~ifeas/SwaFo/
Covers "manuscripts dating from the 1790s to the 1970s, contained in
the papers of William Taylor, Alice Werner, William Hichens, Wilfred Whiteley,
Jan Knappert and Yahya Ali Omar.... holds microfilms of the manuscripts...
deposited by JWT Allen at the University of Dar es Salaam." Search
by keywords across the text of all records, or search individiual collections.
See images of the manuscripts, listen to Shaikh Yahya Ali
Omar reciting a manuscript. The Adam
Matthew company has microfilmed the collection.
[KF] http://swahilimanuscripts.soas.ac.uk/
Report by Ellen Contini-Morava, Dept. of Anthropology/Program in Linguistics,
Univ. of Virginia, on a two-phase study of the semantics and syntax of noun
classification. Phase I (on the web site) is an investigation of the semantic
structure of the noun classes from a cognitive-semantic perspective. http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/swahili/swahili.html
Established in 1964, the Institute conducts research "pertaining
to the languages, linguistics, history, anthropology and ethnology of Asia
and Africa". They publish the Journal of Asian and African Studies
(Tokyo). http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/
On the Durbanet web site. Offers translations from and into Zulu, French
and English. Minimum charge Rand 25. Based in South Africa. http://durbanet.aztec.co.za/translat/index.htm
Open source software translation project to make software available in
the eleven South African languages. Offers the Mozilla browser in Xhosa,
Zulu, Sepedi, Sotho, Siswati, Venda and a bit of Tswana and an Office Suite
in Xhosa, Zulu and Venda. Has a Newsletter.http://translate.org.za/
Free translation of words from Afrikaans to English, English to Afrikaans,
Afrikaans to German, German to Afrikaans, French to English and vice versa,
Portuguese to English and vice versa and other languages. Has a Foreign
Language for Travelers page which includes for Afrikaans, Zulu,
and Sesotho a pronunciation guide, sound files, basic words and
words for numbers, dates and time, travel, places, etc. You can download
a freeware windows multilingual translating dictionary. Maintained by physicist
Dr. Michael Martin. http://dictionaries.travlang.com/
In French. Discussion list. "Cet e-groupe existe pour: donner publicité
aux projets en Afrique utilisant l'Unicode; discuter des questions et problèmes
pratiques avec Unicode et les jeux de caractères pour des langues
africaines; et partager des expériences utiles sur le développement
et utilisation des polices unicodes pour langues africaines." The list
owner is Dr. Don Osborn. http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/Unicode-Afrique
Find Masters theses (full text online, in Dutch) and abstracts of Ph.D. theses in English (at least one in full text - English in Tanzania: an anatomy of hegemony, by Stephen Mugeta Neke, 2002). The University is in Ghent, Belgium. http://www.africana.ugent.be/
In English and Flemish. Information on staff, courses. Is the home of the Interdisciplinary Research Group Africa (IDOGA). [KF] http://www.africana.ugent.be/
Find print publications for some African languages (dictionaries, grammars,
readers, references, audio resources) for beginning to advanced levels.
[Those with access to World Catalog from OCLC can locate additional print
publications in African languages. [KF] http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/
"The Centre's main responsibility, is to promote and develop Malawian
languages. To do this, the Centre will conduct research/ consultancy in
Malawian languages such as Chichewa, Chitumbuka, Chiyao, Chisena, Chiitonga,
Chilomwe etc." Publishes Malilime Journal, has a Chichewa dictionary
project. http://www.sdnp.org.mw/research/cls/csl.html
Database covering some 2,000 educational institutions in North America.
Search on the name of an African language and find where it is taught
in North America. http://carla.acad.umn.edu/LCTL/access.html
"federally funded, nonprofit national foreign language center dedicated
to the advancement of African language teaching and learning in the United
States." Sponsors annual summer institutes and workshops for African
language instructors, issues publications, has a clickable language
map of Africa, a Yoruba
section, online
language brochures, reports, etc. [KF] http://lang.nalrc.wisc.edu/nalrc/home.html
The Institute "seeks to collate and connect ...researchers with an
interest in the Mambila people of the Nigeria-Cameroon borderland and their
neighbours..." "...research is primarily of an anthropological
and linguistic nature..." The site has reports on David Zeitlyn's research
on kinship and language and his annotated version of C. K. Meek's early
ethnological work in the region, and Bruce Connell's comparative study of
Mambila dialects. There is a Mambila
riddle machine - an interactive introduction to Mambila riddles and
a bibliography of anthropological,
linguistic, and related research on Mambila. The site has a short story
by Jonathan W. Mangbon, (from Mambila L.G.A.) "Drink and the Innocent
Policeman" and the History
and Customs of Ntem by P. M. Kaberry and E. M. Chilver. Site established
by Zeitlyn and Connell. http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/
"designed by Michigan State University in Consultation with the
African Language Teachers Association to provide information about the resources
available for the study of African languages." For each language provides
classification and where spoken, number of speakers, dialect survey, usage,
orthographic status, no. of sets of learning materials needed. http://isp.msu.edu/AfrLang/hiermenu.html
Offers a course, a combination of an online/offline Wolof tutorial and
live, chat-based interaction with a Wolof instructor. Has a message board,
a few photographs. http://www.wolofonline.com/
Sells dictionaries, games, language learning products, fonts and software for use with
specific African languages. Based in Los Angeles, CA. http://www.worldlanguage.com/
"Malam Haliru Muhammad Wurno was a historian who lived in Wurno Nigeria,
sometime capital of the Sokoto Caliphate and final resting place of Sultan
Muhammad Bello and other rulers and Wazirs of the Caliphate." The documents
are in Arabic and posted by Prof. John Edward Philips who hopes that
site visitors will contribute to this experiment in web publication of a
collective translation of Haliru's writings. Prof. Philips teaches at Hirosaki
University in Japan. http://human.cc.hirosaki-u.ac.jp/philips/Haliru/haliru.htm
or http://www2.gol.com/users/philips/Haliru/haliru.htm
Lists all languages in Zambia alphabetically and by the Guthrie classification.
For most languages provides a bibliography including journal articles. Clicking
on the Zambia map produces a list of languages spoken in each province.
Created by Lee S. Bickmore, on the Dept. of Anthropology faculty at the
University at Albany (SUNY), Albany, New York.
http://www.albany.edu/~lb527/LOZ.html
"This is a short multilingual dictionary of Zarma developed and modified
over a number of years by Peace Corps language trainers, volunteers, and
staff in Niger. It serves as a reference for learners at a basic to intermediate
level and is not intended to reflect the full richness of the language."
Has links to other Zarma or Songhay sites. Developed by Peace Corps, Niger.
Site maintained by Don Osborn. http://www.bisharat.net/Zarma
Zulu-English/English-Zulu online dictionary. Includes a discussion forum
where readers can suggest new entries and translations. http://www.isizulu.net/
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