Practical Orthography of African Languages

Practical Orthography of African Languages
Author: International African Institute
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2017-09-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1351601377

The first edition of the Practical Orthography of African Languages was a best-seller and this and the following volume re-issues the second edition, in English and French. Originally published in 1930, it provided an invaluable solution to the problem of finding a practical and uniform method of writing African languages. The volume is bound with a small pamphlet which analyses the information on the Semitic and cushitic languages of Eritrea, Ethiopia and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Related languages are grouped together into larger sections which have some linguistic significance. A further pamphlet, the Distribution of the Nilotic and Nilo-Hamitic Languages of Africa, describes the relationship between languages and dialects. For each language, data are given on locality, number of speakers, use for educational and religious purposes and the extent of vernacular literature. The linguistic material is set out in phonetic script with tone marks, though reference is made to current standard orthoraphies where these exist.

Practical Phonetics for Students of African Languages

Practical Phonetics for Students of African Languages
Author: D Westermann
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2015-06-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317406281

First published in 1933, this book looks at the phonetics of African languages. It argues that a good grounding in phonetics and tone work is an indispensable preliminary to anyone embarking on a study of African language and so provides the material necessary for this in a simple form. The volume is primarily a practical manual for students of African languages but will also be an invaluable tool for students of general linguistics as a work of scientific interest. The languages observed present features of language that are very different to those found in Europe.

Kingdom of Mankon

Kingdom of Mankon
Author: Christopher Chi Che
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2010
Genre: HISTORY
ISBN: 9956578096

This book is a descriptive and documentary analysis of the Mankon I-language and E-language mirrored through aspects of history, geography, flora and fauna. These aspects manifest in the taxonomic nomenclatures attributed to referents in society. Because these referents were hitherto transmitted orally from generation to generation, the author has painstakingly analysed and documented aspects of Mankon culture for posterity. The work focuses in particular on Mankon proverbs for insights into the structure and function of the language. As a vehicle of communication, language plays a primordial role in encoding and decoding 'metalinguistic' data. Through thorough scientific linguistic universals and principals, Chi Che has proposed orthography for Mankon pedagogy that is simple, tenable and practicable. This book is the answer to the international clarion call for societies to analyse and document their endangered indigenous cultures. Schools, linguists, sociolinguists, anthropologists, historians and others will find this book especially useful.

A Thesaurus of African Languages

A Thesaurus of African Languages
Author: Michael Mann
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2017-09-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1351611593

Originally published in 1987, this thesaurus is concerned with the spoken languages of Africa. Languages are grouped into a relatively large number of sets and subsets within which the relationship of languages to one another is locally apparent and uncontroversial. The volume presents the languages in classified order with notes on each language, their variant names and immediate classification, and reference to the sources consulted. One section offers an exhaustive list of the languages spoken as home languages by local communities in each state, together with details of languages widely used for inter-group communication, given official recognition, or used in education or the media. There are brief phonological analyses of a broad sample of some 20 African languages and a comprehensive bibliography and language index to the whole work

Advances in the Creation and Revision of Writing Systems

Advances in the Creation and Revision of Writing Systems
Author: Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2015-09-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110807092

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

African Languages in a Digital Age

African Languages in a Digital Age
Author: Don Osborn
Publisher: IDRC
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2010
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0796922497

With increasing numbers of computers and diffusion of the internet around the world, localisation of the technology, and the content it carries, into the many languages people speak is becoming an ever more important area for discussion and action. Localisation, simply put, includes translation and cultural adaptation of user interfaces and software applications, as well as the creation and translation of internet content in diverse languages. It is essential in making information and communication technology more accessible to the populations of the poorer countries, increasing its relevance to their lives, needs, and aspirations, and ultimately in bridging the 'digital divide'.

Handbook of Literacy in Africa

Handbook of Literacy in Africa
Author: R. Malatesha Joshi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2023
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 3031262506

This volume highlights the shortcomings concerning literacy development in Africa and collates the current available literature based on empirical research in various countries in a coherent manner. Further emphasized is how the current research can guide practical information to improve the literacy situation in Africa. The research studies will encompass various fields such as linguistics, neurosciences, and education and will provide future research directions and instructional recommendations to improve the literacy situation in Africa.

Practical Phonetics For Students

Practical Phonetics For Students
Author: Westerman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2013-10-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136148108

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Africa

Africa
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1950
Genre: Africa
ISBN:

Includes Proceedings of the Executive council and List of members, also section "Review of books".