A.L.T. - African Language Training
Resources
Latest Updates
- 0.1 Classification & area information. External Link. Ethnologue. Superb Source of info about World Languages. See 'Wash Your Hands' in many languages
- 0.1 Africa. South Africa. Classification&area information. Oldest languages of the World. Njuu. External link. BBC. June 2, 2021.
- 0.3 References... etc..Language, New Vocabulary due to the Pandemic. External link. BBC. May 25, 2020
- 0.3 Classification and General Information. Egypt. Language. Origin, History, Connections. Youtube.
- Announcement from the Language Sampler Team. Original date: May 15, 2014. Still valid. Overhaul needed. New material is being added. April 18, 2019.
- 2.7 Africa, etc. Culture, etc. Kinship. Article. 2020. Publication/Anthropology.
- 2.7 Africa. Culture, Religion, etc. Berber. Tamazigh influence in Spain. Ancient Ways of Communication by Whistling. August 27, 2021.
- 2.9 Africa. Somaliland. Conflicts. Afghan Refugees. External link. August.27, 2021
Links
- Languages of the World/Source/Ethnologue
- Numerals.Languages of the World. External Link. Max Planck Institute.
- UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive
- 0.0 Daily News/All /Africa
- 0.1 Classification. How many language families are there? Quotes about the Ethnologue.
- 0.1 African Language Families
- 0.1 Classification and area information. Languages and the World. The highest diversity? Africa and Asia!
- 0.1 Classification and area Information.The Kalahari Basin area. External Link. Former Project. Max Planck Institute.
- 0.3 Joseph Greenberg. Complete Bibliography. Important items for African Linguistics.
- 1.1 Explore some unique sounds in West African languages with special reference to the Niger Delta
- 0.0 Daily News In Somall.BBC.Link.
- 0.0 Daily News. In Pidgin. BBC.Link.
- Numerals: Formation: Numeral Bases. Link to WALS
- 2.1 Numbers and other quantity words. Discussion of European and Asian counting systems. Use our Website microsites for selected African languages.
SALLT Project Information
Samples
Welcome to the African Language Training. Find out more about this project.
This site represents ongoing work by the ALT Project on the languages of Africa. Explore the interactive map of the languages of Africa.
A click on the purple marker will take you to:
- a microsite containing samples for Language Identification: selected Languages from Nigeria; ongoing work.
- a microsite with selected samples from Kenya
- an interactive map of the languages spoken in Somalia
- a micro-site with the selected languages from Ghana will be available at the end of the month
- Examine the Feature Thesaurus
- A searchable database for language identification features
- LIT --Language Identification Training will be available at the end of the month
- A review course in Somali is available.
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