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
Offers cd-rom multimedia language courses in Xhosa, Zulu. The Speak Xhosa
With Us multimedia course grew out of a joint development venture between
the University of Cape Town's Multimedia Education Project. Site has cultural
information and reviews from South African newspapers. Based in Diep River,
South Africa. http://www.isixhosa.co.za/ or http://www.africanvoices.co.za/
"A free online encyclopedia in afirkaan language with a lots of articles frequently updated." Has ads on the site. Book reviews in Afrikaans. Maintained by Maite Castagna. http://ensiklopedie.com/
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
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. http://www.boslang.com/
"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/
From the publication, Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 13th
ed. (Dallas, Tx.: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1996), edited by Barbara
F. Grimes. Provides no. of speakers, dialects, linguistic affiliation, etc.
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=South+Africa
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
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/
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
Describes each of the official and unofficial languages. Gives general
words/phrases, a pronunciation guide, text examples, suggested books, related
web sites, a chart and table showing percentage and number of speakers per
language. The Constitution on language, extinct languages, language
programs in South Africa, downloadable fonts.Offers translation services
for South African languages. Created by Jako Olivier. http://www.cyberserv.co.za/users/~jako/lang/index.htm
or http://www.languages.web.za
Summary of the Final Report of the Language Plan Task Group (LANGTAG).
Presented to the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, Dr B.S.
Ngubane 8 August 1996. http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/reports/langtag.html
Free translation of words from Afrikaans to English, English to Afrikaans,
Afrikaans to German, German to Afrikaans. 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/
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. http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/
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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