Web resources for African languages

WEB RESOURCES FOR
AFRICAN LANGUAGES

Afroasiatic
- Berber
- Chadic
- Cushitic
- Egyptian
- Omotic
- Semitic
Khoesan
Niger-Congo
- Adamawa
- Atlantic
- Benue-Congo
· Bantoid
· Bantu
- Gur
- Ijoid
- Kordofanian
- Kru
- Kwa
- Mande
- Ubangi
- Dogon/Mpre/Pre
Nilosaharan
Remnant
"New"

General stuff
Country-specifics
Institutes
Journals
Conferences

About/Contact

These pages
are maintained
by Jouni Maho.

EMAIL:
maho@brevet.nu

There are anywhere between 1,500 and 2,000 languages in Africa, most of which are still poorly documented. While much linguistic field work is being carried out in Africa, and thus also many publications do see the light of day, access to descriptive materials is in general hard to come by and often fragmentary. These webpages aim to simplify the finding of linguistic Africana on the net.

WHAT'S THIS SITE ABOUT?

The main purpose of these pages is to offer easy access to online materials dealing with African languages.

These pages contain links to other sites hosting free stuff, be they downloadable files (of any format), web-readable texts, searchable databases, or whatever. Particular attention is given to materials that contain structural/descriptive data, though not exclusively so. Links to commercial enterprises won't be added, as a rule.

UPDATES AND REVISIONS

Updates and revisions are performed as time allows.

I cannot add anything that I do not know about. If you know of any material that should be on these pages, then please drop me a mail using the email address listed somewhere on this page. (Avoid sending attachments, though.)

The most recent additions on any particular page are, or at least should be, flagged with an image stating "NEW" (). Corrected links are flagged with a similar image stating "CORR" (). The latest additions are also listed chronologically on a special page created just for that purpose.

Thanks to Marvin Beachy, Roger M. Blench, Mark Dingemanse, Ines Fiedler, Harald Hammarström, Amina Mettouchi, Bonny Sands, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Anne Schwarz, Lameen Souag, Oliver Stegen, and others, for helping me keep this updated.

Most recently updated pages:

NEWS, NOTICES, UPDATES

The most recent additions are listed here.

2008-04-10
The Internet Archive has lots of fascinating public domain stuff, such as old books and old movies. They even have past versions of web pages. There's quite a lot of interesting Africana there, too, and I'll be adding links to them as I find them. But it's a slow process searching for them, so it might take a while before I've found them all (or at least most of them).

2008-04-01
The Kamusi Project is about to begin work on PALDO: the Pan-African Living Dictionary Online. A planning meeting will take place in Accra, Ghana, on April 2, which is to be simulcast live online. You can participate via a special blog at www.kamusiproject.org/paldo. The meeting starts at 9 AM, local time (GMT), which you can swiftly convert to your own local time by visiting the World Clock Time Converter.

2008-02-28
The University of California has put out a lot of papers online at their eScholarship Repository. It's well worth a visit. I'm slowly browsing through the contents and have started putting up proper links to some of the available papers, esp. those appearing in UCLA working papers in linguistics.

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