African Languages category: 300 books
Africa's Endangered Languages
Documentary and Theoretical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Relatively little is known about Africa's endangered languages. Unlike indigenous languages in Australia, North Asia, and the Americas, which are predominantly threatened by colonizers, African languages are threatened most immediately by other local languages. As a result, the threat of language...
by Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
This book addresses the perennial question of how to promote Africa’s indigenous languages as medium of instruction in educational systems. Breaking with the traditional approach to the continent’s language question by focusing on the often overlooked issue of the link between African languages...
A History of Afro-Hispanic Language
Five Centuries, Five Continents
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2005
The African slave trade, beginning in the fifteenth century, brought African languages into contact with Spanish and Portuguese, resulting in the Africans' gradual acquisition of these languages. In this 2004 book, John Lipski describes the major forms of Afro-Hispanic language found in the Iberian...
by Rajend Mesthrie
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
South African Indian English (SAIE) is a variety of English in the Linguistics literature. It reflects the source of Indian subcontinent languages from Indian migrants to South Africa in the late 19th century, as well as colonial and apartheid influences and those of local African languages.
African Youth Languages
New Media, Performing Arts and Sociolinguistic Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
This book showcases current research on language in new media, the performing arts and music in Africa, emphasising the role that youth play in language change and development. The authors demonstrate how the efforts of young people to throw off old colonial languages and create new local ones has...
Africa Complete Collection (23 Languages)
Language Audio Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary Training Course Collection for Travel in Africa (Including Bambara, Chewa, French, Hassaniya Arabic, Hausa, Jahanka, Jola, Luganda, Malagasy, Mandinka, Moore, Moroccan Arabic, Pulaar, Sepedi, Setsw
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Africa Complete CollectionWelcome to the Africa Complete Collection. This book is one of largest African language collections available and includes 23 languages all with full audio.This collection is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to Africa. Learn essential words,...
Becoming an African Diaspora in Australia
Language, Culture, Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Becoming an African Diaspora in Australia extends debates on identities, cultures and notions of race and racism into new directions as it analyses the forms of interactional identities of African migrants in Australia. It de-naturalises the commonplace assumptions and imaginations about the cultures...
Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature
Coloring Outside the (Black and White) Lines
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature examines the popular literary stereotype, the tragic mulatto, from a transnational perspective. Mafe considers the ways in which specific South African and American writers have used this controversial literary character to challenge the logic of racial categorization.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary and comprehensive reference work on the often-marginalised languages of southern Africa. The authors analyse a range of different concepts and questions, including language and sociality, social and political history, multilingual government, and...
Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation
The Correspondence
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
This collection combines previously unpublished letters between African-American poet Langston Hughes and South-African writers of the 1950s and 1960s with scholarly commentary and criticism. The letters tell a fascinating story of the civil rights movement and apartheid and the struggle to overthrow it.
West Africa Collection (14 Languages)
Language Audio Learning Country Guide and Vocabulary Training Course Collection for Travel in West Africa (Including Bambara, French, Hassaniya Arabic, Hausa, Jahanka, Jola, Mandinka, Moore, Pulaar, Soninke, Twi, Wolof and Zarma)
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
West Africa CollectionWelcome to the West Africa Collection. This collection includes 14 of our training courses all within the same book. This collection is designed to teach you the basics both before and during your visit to West Africa. Learn essential words, phrases and vocabulary. This course is...
Minoan Signs
An African Decipherment
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
The Minoan Linear Signs have now been explained as Niger-Congo. And some twenty five full words have been related to Fula. Problematic words of Greek have also been given tentative African etymologies. A new African language, four thousand years old, has come to light in the Linear A documents. So we...
Inheritance and Innovation in a Colonial Language
Towards a Usage-Based Account of French Guianese Creole
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
This book takes a fresh approach to analysing how new languages are created, combining in-depth colonial history and empirical, usage-based linguistics. Focusing on a rarely studied language, the authors employ this dual methodology to reconstruct how multilingual individuals drew on their perception...
by Tara Castelli Felice
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
The magnificent books in the Collection « A world of Proverbs» illustrate a few cultures with sayings and beautiful images.
For you or to offer someone dear to your heart, the traditions of each country are drawn in front of your eyes and allow you to meditate...