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. Classification&Area Information. Swahili as Pan-African Language? BBC, February 17, 2022.
- Announcement from the Language Sampler Team. Original date: May 15, 2014. Still valid. Overhaul needed. New material is being added. April 18, 2019.
- 0.1 Africa. Classification and Area Information News. Out of Africa. New findings re:arrival of Homo Sapiens vs. Neanderthals. BBC. February 9, 2022.
- 2.6 Africa, Land, terrain, resources. oil. Gas. Replacement of Russian Oil. BBC, May 15 2022.
- 2.6 Land, Terrain, etc. Africa. Somalia.The Draught and Hunger, External link. Reuters. May 25, 2022.
- 2.6 Africa. African Union. Land, terrain, resources. Grain shortage due to the War Ukraine. France 24. June 10, 2022.
- 2.6 Africa. Somalia. Drought. Hunger. Young boys on a mission to find food. Reuter's, June 20, 2022.
- 2.7 Africa, Somalia. Culture...Food. Recipe. External link. Global table adventure. May, 2018. Posted June 23, 2022.
- 2.9 Africa. Somalia. Support for the New President in his Efforts to Bring about Peace. BBC. June 1, 2022.
Links
- Languages of the World/Source/Ethnologue
- 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.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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