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Pan-African & various general links
Webresources
for African Languages
The SOAS
Guide to Asian and African Languages
A Web of On-Line
Dictionaries and Grammars
compiled by Robert Beard
The Linguistics
Association for SADC Universities (LASU)
Webbook
of African Languages
"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."
The
Borno Studies Homepage, Universität Wien
Bisharat!
- a language, technology & development initiative compiled by Don
Osborn.
"Anticipating the gradual introduction of
computers and the internet to rural communities in Africa, the current
focus of Bisharat is on research, advocacy, and networking relating to
use of African languages in software and web content."
Traditional
religion in Africa maintained by Chidi Denis Isizoh
Contains articles and many many links.
Brief
ethnological information on more than a hundred African peoples
(Art & life in Africa Online).
The Ethnologue
SIL's Ethnologue has a much information on
African (and other) languages.
Afroasiatic languages & related cultures
See Webresources for African Languages for language
materials.
Amharic Language
Multimedia Series Program (commercial)
kabyle.com - a Berber
site
Hausa Home Page at UCLA
OromoSoft,
an Oromo software development site
The
folk-literature of the Galla of southern Abyssinia - part 1 and part 2,
by Enrico Cerulli. (Entered by hand by Richard Seltzer.)
Khoesan languages & related cultures
See Webresources for African Languages for language
materials.
San
culture by Nigel Brett
"This report explores the San, or Bushman,
culture of southern Africa and how they express their relationship with
nature."
The Khoisan
"An educational information resource
provided by the Future Perfect Corporation."
Introduction to the Bushmen by Mike Elliott
San, Khwe, Basarwa, or Bushmen?: teminology, identity,
and empowerment in southern Africa by Robert K. Hitchcock &
Megan Biesele
Specimens
of Bushman folklore (1911) by Wilhelm Bleek & Lucy Lloyd
Niger-Congo languages & related cultures
(Excluding Bantu -- see further below.)
See Webresources for African Languages for language
materials.
Dagaare Linguists's HomePage
Fula
(Fulfulde, Pulaar, Fulani, Peul) Language Page at Michigan State
University
Web Pulaaku - Home of
the FulBe and Haal-Pular nation (West Africa)
Le
page des langues Gur/The Gur languages page by John
Rennison
Igbo
Culture and Notes on the Igbo language
The Virtual Institute
of Mambila Studies by David Zeitlyn and Bruce Connell
Lots of Mande links by Misty Bastian
Wolof
of Senegal, by Mark Jackson
Lots of Yoruba links by Misty Bastian
Bantu languages & related cultures
See Webresources
for African Languages for language materials.
Comparative
Bantu On-Line Dictionaries (CBOLD), University of California at
Berkeley
The Bantu
languages/Les langues bantou by Jacky Maniacky
Bantu Retention and Innovation Questionnaire (BRIQ)
by Larry Hyman, Gérard Philippson, Lolke van der Veen, Jacky
Maniacky, and Jeffrey Good.
"Contact languages in the Bantu area" by Salikoko
S. Mufwene
The
Languages of Zambia by Lee S. Bickmore
Links
to various resources on Tanzanian Bantu languages by Jouni Maho
& Bonny Sands
Art
& life in Africa Online includes brief ethnographic
descriptions of several Bantu-speaking peoples.
Bemba Homepage by Debra Spitulnik and David
Charnon
Buganda
Homepage by Mukasa E. Ssemakula
Herero project, Dept of Linguistics, SOAS
On Sesotho,
a weblog by Rethabile Masilo
Moja (Swahili),
bilingual information source
ALI
Swahili, Universität Zürich
Kamanakao
Association (Yeyi)
The Kamanakao Association "is a registered
non-governmental organization with the basic objective of maintaining
and developing the remnants of the language and culture of the Wayeyi
people of northern Botswana."
Nilosaharan languages & related cultures
See Webresources for African Languages for language
materials.
The Maasai Language Project by Doris L.
Payne
Nilosaharan
Newsletter at LLACAN
Information
on Nubian culture by SIS (Egypt State Information Service)
Unsorted miscellaneous links of interest
The
Rosetta Project
"The Rosetta Project is a global
collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to
develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone ... our
goal is a meaningful survey and near permanent archive of 1,000
languages"
The LinguistList
The Linguasphere
Observatory, directed by David Dalby
A survey and classification of the world's
languages and speech communities.
A Web of On-Line
Dictionaries and Grammars
compiled by Robert Beard
xrefer
"Free access to over 50 reference titles
containing more than 500,000 entries".
The
Century Dictionary
A 12-volume English dictionary available
on-line for free.
InterTran
= Internet Translator
Universal
Declaration of Human Rights in several hundred different languages
Foreign
Languages for Travellers, Travlang
The
Alternative Dictionaries (TAD), international slang - an internet
collaborative project
World Wide Words,
edited by Michael Quinion
Yahoo's
Page of Dictionaries
Multilingual
Web, Academic Computing Facility, New York University
The List
of Language Lists prepared by Michael Everson
A long list of mailinglists devoted to the
study of individual languages and language groupings.
Font
Archives at Yamada Language Center
World Language
- "the ultimate language store"
Languages
on the Web
Global
Gazetteer
"This is a directory of 2880532 of the
world's cities and towns, sorted by country and linked to a map for
each town ... Copyright 1998-2000 by Falling Rain Genomics, Inc."
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