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  • A Thesaurus of African Languages

    A Classified and Annotated Inventory of the Spoken Languages of Africa With an Appendix on Their Written Representation

    Edited by Michael Mann, David Dalby ...
    Series series Linguistic Surveys of Africa
    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, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • African Language Review

    Edited by David Dalby ...
    First published in 1971. The Sierra Leone Language Review is the African Language Journal of Fourah Bay College, the University College of Sierra Leone. The Journal is devoted to the detailed study of languages in Sierra Leone and neighbouring areas of West Africa, and also to the more general study and discussion of African languages and language-problems ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • African Languages/Langues Africaines

    Volume 5 (1) 1979

    Edited by Kahombo Mateene, P. Akụjụobi Nwachukwu, David Dalby, Derek Nurse ...
    Series series Linguistic Surveys of Africa
    Volume 5 (1) of African Languages originally published in 1979, is a special issue focussing on the Bantu languages in Tanzania. The languages are discussed according to 4 regions of Tanzania and although the sub-grouping is lexicostatistical, the classification is borne out by other consdierations, such as phonology and verbal morphology. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • African Languages/Langues Africaines

    Volume 5 (2) 1979

    Edited by Kahombo Mateene, David Dalby, P. Akụjụobi Nwachukwu ...
    Series series Linguistic Surveys of Africa
    Volume 5 (2) of African Languages originally published in 1979, is a special issue focussing on languages and education in Africa. There are chapters on African language education from a socio-linguistic perspective, the problems of bi-lingualism and multi-lingualism in Zaire and small languages in primary education. ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • Practical Orthography of African Languages

    Bound with: Orthographe Pratique des Langues Africaines; The Distribution of the Semitic and Cushitic Languages of Africa; The Distribution of the Nilotic and Nilo-Hamitic Languages of Africa; and Linguistic Analyses

    by International African Institute ...
    Series series Linguistic Surveys of Africa
    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 ... Read more

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  • African Languages/Langues Africaines

    Volume 1 1975

    by Various Authors ...
    Series series Linguistic Surveys of Africa
    Volume 1 of African Languages include articles originally published in 1975 and written in French and English on educational, literary, cultural, historical and socio-linguistic aspects of language in Africa, as well as descriptive and comparative studies. Among others there are chapters on African oral literature, the standardization of languages and education in Nigeria and a description of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • African Languages/Langues Africaines

    Volume 2 1976

    Edited by P. Akụjụobi Nwachukwu ...
    Series series Linguistic Surveys of Africa
    Volume 2 of African Languages includes articles originally published in 1976, written in French and English on educational, literary, cultural, historical and socio-linguistic aspects of language in Africa, as well as descriptive and comparative studies. Among others there are chapters on an early Vai manuscript from Liberia, John Clarke's unidentified Nago dialect and swahili secondary education ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa

    Handbook of African Languages Part 3

    by A. N. Tucker, M. A. Bryan ...
    Series Book 3 - Linguistic Surveys of Africa
    Originally published in 1956, this volume presents a survey of the non-Bantu languages in the area extending south of the Sahara from Lake Chad to the Indian Ocean, together withj those of South Africa. The arrangement is primarily linguistic, in as much as larger units which show some indisputable affinities are where possible treated contiguously. Languages in the centre of the total area are ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • African Languages/Langues Africaines

    Volume 3 1977

    Edited by P. Akụjụobi Nwachukwu ...
    Series series Linguistic Surveys of Africa
    Volume 3 of African Languages includes articles originally published in 1977, written in French and English on educational, literary, cultural, historical and socio-linguistic aspects of language in Africa, as well as descriptive and comparative studies. Among others there are chapters on the national language issue in Africa (Akan in Ghana), a socio-linguistic case study of the Hausa language in ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Introducing Linguistics

    A Graphic Guide

    by R. L. Trask ...
    Series Book 0 - Graphic Guides
    Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Saussure and Chomsky, "Introducing Linguistics" reveals the rules and beauty that underlie language, our most human skill. ... Read more

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  • The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu

    by Lilias A. Armstrong ...
    Series series Linguistic Surveys of Africa
    Originally published in 1940, this book was the result of 3 years' worth of phonetic research and analysis with the aim of laying foudnations for improved methods of teaching and ascertaining the most scientific basis for current orthography of the Kikuyu language of Kenya. ... Read more

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  • The Bantu Languages of Western Equatorial Africa

    Handbook of African Languages

    by Malcolm Guthrie ...
    Series series Linguistic Surveys of Africa
    The area covered by this book, originally published in 1953, is one that has long been recognized as presenting many problems from the point of view of Bantu linguistic studies. Almost all the material set out in this present work is based on notes taken in the field, and in many cases presented completely new facts. The sources of the information used are listed at the end of the linguistic ... Read more

    $48.99 USD