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The African Languages and Literatures collection at the George A. Smathers Libraries
includes language materials from dozens of languages spoken in sub-Saharan Africa. The
collection is focused primarily on the languages taught at the University. These include
Akan, Shona, Swahili, Xhosa, and Yoruba.
Links to language resources on the web
- Comparative Bantu On
Line Dictionary (CBOLD)
- "The CBOLD project was started in 1994 by Larry Hyman and John Lowe
to produce in Berkeley a lexicographic database to support and enhance the
theoretical, descriptive, and historical linguistic study of the languages
in the important Bantu family."
- Ethnologue: Languages of the world
- The electronic version from SIL (Summer Institute of Language) of the original printed
catalogue of over 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries, the Ethnologue database
provides the Ethnologue Language Name Index, and the Ethnologue Language Family Index.
- Foundation for Endangered
languages
- Includes a newsletter and conference archive as well as many links
related to African languages.
- Languages of
Africa via University of Pennsylvania
- Includes links to information about the spoken languages of Africa, as well as
linguistic analysis of some African languages.
- On-line
Dictionaries
- A nearly comprehensive set of world language dictionaries available
on the Internet (by a number of different means, from Acrobat files to Java
interactive web pages). Includes five
languages under "Atlantic-Congo Languages," more than thirty Bantu
languages, Igbo, Shona, Swahili, Wolof, and more.
- Yamada Language Guide
- Created and maintained by the Yamada Language Center
staff at the University of Oregon, this excellent home page provides guides for many
languages of the world. Includes some African languages and links to many Africa-related
newsgroups and mail lists.
Swahili Resources
- The Kamusi Project
- The Internet Living Swahili Dictionary is maintained by the Yale Program in
African Languages and the Council on African Studies at Yale. It is a collaborative
work by people all over the world.
- Noun
Classification in Swahili
- A searchable database maintained by Ellen Contini-Morava Department of Anthropology,
Program in Linguistics at the University of Virginia.
- Kiswahili Grammar Notes
- Maintained by the Kamusi Project at Yale University, it has some chapters on Swahili
functional grammar.
- Swahili Studies: A Working Bibliography
- Compiled by Kelly M. Askew, Indiana University. Provided by the Tanzania
Studies Association, which has a number of other useful scholarly and
research related resources.
Yoruba
- The Institute of Yoruba Language and
Culture
- Produced by Egbe Isokan Yoruba for preservation of the Yoruba Culture among the
descendants and others learning to understand and speak this West African language
(Nigeria, Benin).
Links to literature resources
- African writers: Voices of Change
- Includes short biographical sketches of several African authors,as well as a page for Francophone African poets in English translation including brief
biographical sketches and short excerpts from each author's work.
- Karen Fung's Africa -
Literature page
- From Stanford University. Provides links to many resources on the web for African
Literature in non-African languages including numerous links to individual authors.
- The Voice of the Shuttle
- Alan Liu links to many resources for humanities research on the web, with sections on
African literature in English
and African literature in
non-English languages.
Local resources
A guide to the African Language and Literature collection and reference resources in
the University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries.
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