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African Language Resources on the Internet

• ACALAN: Académie Africaine des Langues = African Academy of Languages (2006) (Bamako, Mali)
  • Colloques, textes référenciels, bulletin, et liens utiles
    -- Voir surtout: Rapport général sur le Colloque régional sue << Politiques nationales: le rôle des langues transfrontalières et la place des langues de moindre diffusion en Afrique de l'Ouest, >> Bamako, 16-18 Mai 2006 Format PDF
  • << Multilinguisme pour la diversité culturelle et la participation de tous dans le cyberespace >>, du 6 au 7 mai 2005, Bamako, Mali =  "Multilingualism for Cultural Diversity and Participation of All in Cyberspace". L"UNESCO, en partenariat avec l'ACALAN, l'Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie, le gouvernement du Mali, et plusieurs autres organisations internationales. (via UNESCO, Paris, France)
  
  
• AfLaT -- African Language Technology (Antwerp, Belgium; Cape Town, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya)
  "...the growing availability of digital corpora, dictionaries and tools for many (formerly) resource-scarce African languages...The AfLaT website aims to catalogue these resources for the benefit of researchers interested in African language technology. ...AfLaT.org contains a steadily growing collection of bibliographic resources, web links and tools, provided by AfLaT members."
  
  
• AFRILEX: African Association for Lexicography (via University of Pretoria, South Africa)
  • The website features news about research, conferences, and related links.
  • "Call for Papers": 13th International AFRILEX Conference, 30 June--3 July 2008, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Registration deadline: May 31, 2008. PDF format.
  
  
• ALMA: African Language Materials Archive: A joint project of the West African Research Center (Dakar, Senegal), Columbia University, CAORC--Council of American Overseas Research Centers, and UNESCO. (via DRL--Digital Library for International Research, a project of the CAORC, Washington, DC)
  • A collection of 33 electronic books in three major languages of West Africa: Wolof, Mandinka, and Pular. The archive was produced as part of a pilot project launched by the West African Research Center in Dakar.
  • See other resources for Wolof, Mandinka, Fulfulde and Pular below.
  
  
• ALRP: African Language Research Project (Department of English and Modern Languages, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, Maryland)
  • The site includes information on the project history, African language publications, conference/workshop proceedings, and current progress; plus a project newsletter. "From 1994 to the present the project has published level two and three readers in Yoruba, Hausa, Lingala, Sudanese Arabic, and a forthcoming reader in Igbo. Currently [in 2004], a manuscript is being developed in the Wolof language (Senegal). For the next two years funds are available for readers in Akan and Luganda. These readers are professionally published by Dunwoody Press, a division of McNeil Technologies."
  • Electronic Lexicon (Igbo-English)
  
  
• African Language Teachers' Association (ALTA), 1999- (via University of Wisconsin, Madison)
  General information on the organization and its activities. See also, National African Language Resource Center below.
  
  
• Web Resources for African Languages (Jouni F. Maho, Partille, Sweden)
  An extensive collection of links to sites with e-books, full text documents, and other web sites.
  
  
• AfricanLanguages.Com (David Joffe, Pretoria, South Africa)
  • This website contains information about African Languages, online dictionaries and lexicons, and other African Language related resources. Currently mostly only the South African languages are covered---especially Sesotho, Setswana, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Venda, Siswati, and Afrikaans, as well as Kiswahili and Cilubà in Eastern and Central Africa.
  • Kiswahili
  • Sheng-English Lexicon
    -- Sheng is a slang dialect of Kiswahili spoken in Kenya, especially in and around Nairobi.
  • Cilubà
    -- Cilubà is spoken mostly in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
  
  
• African Languages Technology Initiative--ALT-I (2004) (Ibadan, Nigeria)
  • "African Languages Technology Initiative (Alt-I) was set up to facilitate development of the necessary resources that will enable the engagement of information communication technologies (ICT) in African Languages. ...to appropriate various aspects of human language technology (HLT) such as speech synthesis, speech recognition, natural language understanding, machine translation and many others..."
  • Projects--corpus development, Yoruba keyboard, speech synthesis, etc.
  
  
• 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) and 11th African Language Teachers' Association (ALTA) Conference, March 22-27, 2007, University of Florida, Gainesville
  -- See also: 37th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL), April 6-9, 2006, University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon)
  
  
• 5th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL), August 7-11, 2006, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Department of Linguistics, Addis Ababa University)
  Warning: the official web site may not always be accessible. For brief information on the 5th Congress, see also: WOCAL Home Page (via Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey)
  
  
• Amharic on the Internet
  • African Language.Com's Amharic Language Tutorial Programs (Anaheim, California)
    Warning: this is a commercial site.
    Tutorial materials for Tigrinya, Oromo, and Somali are also available.
  • Ethiopic.Com (Ethiopian Computers & Software, Littleton, Colorado; in association with Fettan Graphics Corp., Washington, DC)
    The web site features downloadable Ge'ez fonts and other products, plus extensive links to articles and related information on the Web about the Amharic language and Ethiopia.
  • Tsehai Loves Learning (Abshiro Group, USA; in association with Whiz Kids Workshop, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
    A website featuring information about educational videos (DVD format), TV programs in Amharic from Ethiopia, and public events in the USA for teaching Amharic to (Ethiopian) children.
  
  
• Bambara on the Internet
  • Bambara: Léxique bambara-français-anglais (Richard Nci Diarra, Koutala, Mali)
    
    
  • Hadamaden josiraw dantigekan = Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 -- Geneva, Switzerland: United Nations Information Centre ; United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland, 1998. (PDF version)
  
  
  
  • Indiana University, Language & Computer Laboratories: Introductory --and-- Intermediate Bambara. Languages On-Line. (Bloomington, Indiana)
    Audio files in Bambara and English which accompany the grammar, An Ka Bamanankan Kan Kalan, by Charles Bird et al. (1976-77), published by Indiana University Press. Note: there are no online texts.
    
    
  • Jekabaara. (Online) -- Bamako, Mali: Afribone Mali SA, 2005-
    Un mensuel électronique en Bamanan depuis 2005 où agriculteurs et agricultrices du Mali peuvent librement s'exprimer.
  
  
• BEMBA: A Brief Linguistic Profile by Debra Spitulnik and Mubanga E. Kashoki (Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia)
  This document provides a linguistic profile of Bemba, a major language and cultural group of Zambia.
  
  
• Bisharat! A language, technology, and development initiative (See below)
  
  
• BL Online: the bibliographical database of linguistics. Bibliographie linguistique/Linguistic Bibliography.
  -- The Hague, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Bibliotheek = National Library of the Netherlands, 1993-
  
  
• Books in African Languages: Recent Acquisitions 1999-2000, Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University. With Addenda to the previously published catalog. Compiled by D.W. Bade. PAS working papers; no. 8, vol. 3. (2004) -- Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Program of African Studies, 2004. (120 pp. in PDF format)
  -- See also:  Volumes 1-2 (2000) (1045 pp. in PDF format)
  
  
• Buganda Home Page Focus on Language (Mukasa E. Ssemakula et al., Wayne State University, Ohio)
  "Empandika y'Oluganda"--a primer in speaking and writing Luganda ; a Luganda grammar ; and related links.
  
  
• Bukedde. (Online) -- Kampala, Uganda: New Vision Printing & Publishing Corporation, 2000 -
  Current daily issue in Luganda and a searchable archive -- since 2000 -- of the electronic version of this government-run newspaper.
  
  
• CBOLD: Comparative Bantu Online Dictionary (Department of Linguistics and the Institute of Cognitive Studies, University of California, Berkeley ; via L'Institut des Sciences de l'Homme, Lyon, France)
  • The site offers descriptions of the project and its components, with tools for linguistic analysis, a selection of dictionaries and word lists, and related links. "The CBOLD project was started in 1994 by Larry Hyman and John Lowe to produce in Berkeley a lexicographic database to support and enhance the theoretical, descriptive, and historical linguistic study of the languages in the important Bantu family."
  • Online Searchable Dictionaries and Word Lists
  • Bantu Maps and  Mapmaker
  
  
• Conferences on African Languages and Linguistics
  • Upcoming Conferences on African Languages and Linguistics Web Resources for African Languages (Jouni F. Maho, Göteborg University, Södra Anneberg, Partille, Sweden)
    
    
  • Selected Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: African Languages and Linguistics in Broad Perspectives. Edited by John Mugane, John P. Hutchison, and Dee A. Worman. Cascadilla Proceedings Project. -- Somerville, Massachusetts: Cascadilla Press, 2005. [A conference originally held in 2004 at Harvard University; abstracts and full text in PDF format.]
    
    
  • 4th World Congress of African Linguistics and 34th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, June 17-22, 2003, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
    General information and call for papers. The deadline for abstracts is December 17, 2002.
    
    
  • The 32nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, March 22-25, 2001, University of California, Berkeley: "Linguistics Reconstruction and Comparison in Africa." (via Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio)
  • Third World Congress of African Linguistics 2000 =  Le 3ème Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Africaine 2000: Du 21 au 26 août 2000, Université du Bénin, Lomé, Togo (via Togo Contact, Refer, Lomé)
    
  • 5th Annual ALTA Conference, April 26-28, 2001 (via National African Language Resource Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
    
  • Eighth Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, August 22-25, 2001, Hamburg, Germany (Institut für Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik, Universität Hamburg)
  
  
• Ethiopic Script Omniglot: a guide to written language. (Simon Ager, USA)
  A very brief introduction to the script or fidel used in Ethiopia and Eritrea--especially for Ge'ez, Amharic, and Tigrinya; with a syllabary and related links.
  
  
• Ethnologue Country Index -- Africa (From Ethnologue (Online), SIL International, Dallas, Texas, 1999-)
  For each country in Africa, there is a listing and description of languages, and a map of languages.
  
  
• Fon is Fun! =  Le Fon est facile...vraiment! (Chris Starace, via GeoCities.Com)
  A basic primer on Fongbe, the predominant language of southern Benin, compiled by an ex-Peace Corps Volunteer.
  
  
• Fulfulde.Com (Equipe Fulfulde.Com, via RPM Informatique; Maroua, Cameroun)
  Ce site de leçons comprend plusieurs thèmes et une longue liste de mots--avec beaucoup d'exemples sonores. Ce site est surtout pour toutes les personnes intéressées par les langues africaines, la langue du Fulfulde, et par la région du Nord Cameroun.
  
  
• Hausa Language Web Pages
  • BBC World Service in Hausa (British Broadcasting Corporation, London, UK)
  • Deutsche Welle News Summaries and Radio Broadcasts in Hausa (Bonn, Germany)
  • Gumel.Com: Barka da zuwa filin Hausa (Mohammed Hashim Gumel, USA)
    A web site entirely in Hausa, with news from Nigeria (in English, from Nigerian newspapers or e-mail reports), Hausa radio program files, cultural information, and related links.
  • Hausa Home Page (University of California, Los Angeles)
    This site --still under construction-- offers basic information and links on Hausa language and culture, including an annotated  bibliography, a section on Hausa  writing, and a few illustrations and sound files.
  • K'ofar Hausa: The Online Dictionary (Franz Stoiber et al., Afrikanistik, Universität Wien, Austria)
    A searchable dictionary in Hausa, English or German, with frequent updates. As of October 2001, the authors claim to include about 9000 Hausa key-words.
  
  
• Igbo on the Internet
  • Igbo Open Source Translation Project (USA)
    This site --under construction-- includes project-related links and contact information. "This project aims to translate popular software for the Linux operating system, including Gnome, KDE, Mozilla, Thunderbird and Open Office into Igbo."
    
    
  • IgboNet -- The Igbo Network (Igbo Heritage, Inc., USA)
    • A portal website --under construction-- for Igbo language and culture in the diaspora. The site includes:
    • Ahiajoku lecture series. (Online) -- Owerri, Nigeria: Imo State Ministry of Information and Culture, 1979-
    • Igbo Language Center -- Lessons 1-4
    • Igbo Language Forum
    
    
  • African Language Research Project:  Electronic Lexicon (Igbo-English). Sponsored by the ALRP. (Department of English and Modern Languages, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, Maryland)
  
  
• Intellectuels non europhones. par Ousmane Kane. Document de travail. -- Dakar, Sénégal: Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique (CODESRIA), c2003. (Format PDF)
  
  
• International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions: "Sources for African language materials from the countries of Anglophone Africa." (1995) by Alfred Kagan. (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 61st IFLA General Conference, Conference Proceedings, August 20-25, 1995. (IFLANET; via Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique, France)
  
  
• LLACAN--Langage, Langues et cultures d'Afrique noire (Villejuif, France)
  "Le Llacan...est une Unité Mixte de Recherche qui associe le CNRS et l'Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco) autour d'un projet scientifique d'étude et de description des langues de l'Afrique subsaharienne." Ce site offre l'accés à plusieurs bases de données, une revue sur la langue bamanankan--Mandekan, un catalogue des fonds documentaires dans une grande bibliothèque de linguistique, les listes des publications des membres de l'équipe du LLACAN, etc.
  
  
• Languages of Africa and the Internet -- Research
  • Bisharat! A language, technology, and development initiative (The Netherlands)
    • "Bisharat! is an evolving idea based on the importance of maternal languages in sustainable development and the enormous potential of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) to benefit efforts in the area of language and development. Anticipating the gradual introduction of computers and the internet to rural communities in Africa, the current focus of Bisharat is on research, advocacy, and networking relating to use of African languages in software and web content."
    • Basic documents on language policy in Africa
    • A12N-Collaboration -- African Language Encoding, Fonts, Keyboards: Discussion Fora and Reference Pages
    
    
    
    • Pan African Localisation Project = Projet panafricain sur la localisation (Supported by IDRC and in collaboration with Kabissa)
      -- PanAfrLoc/ PmWiki Workshop, June 13-16, 2005, Casablanca, Morocco
      
      
    • Links
    
    
  • klnX: The Open Swahili Localization Project = Mradi wa kuswahilisha programu huria (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; IT+46, Sweden)
    The website about the joint effort to provide computer operating software in Kiswahili.
    
    
  • "Les langues africaines sur la toile" (novembre 2003). Par Marcel Diki-Kidiri et Atibakwa Baboya Edema. Cahiers du Rifal; no. 23. (via Carrefour International Francophone de Documentation et d'Information, Paris, France)
    Ce document comprend une liste des sites étudiés dans l'annexe de 50 pages. Voir aussi, le site principal des  Cahiers du Rifal qui est publié au Canada.
    
    
  • "Traitement informatique des langues africaines: problèmes et perspectives" (décembre 1995). Par Emile Camara [...et alli.] ALAF-Action de Recherche Partagée AUPELF-UREF. (Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France)
    
    
  • Unicode Consortium (Mountain View, California)
    • "The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization originally founded to develop, extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard, which specifies the representation of text in modern software products and standards."
    • Language and scripts already encoded
    
    
  • University of California--Berkeley, Department of Linguistics: Script Encoding Initiative (Berkeley, California)
    • "The goal of the project is to fund the development of script proposals that will be successfully approved by the Unicode Technical Committee without requiring extensive revision or involvement of the committee itself. A secondary goal for certain scripts is to produce freely-available fonts, both for publication of the standards and for end-users."
    • Lists of language scripts not yet encoded
  
  
• The Languages of Tanzania: A Web Link Collection (Jouni Maho and Bonny Sands, Göteborgs Universitet, Institutionen för orientaliska och afrikanska sprâk, Sweden) Appendix to: The languages of Tanzania: a bibliography. (forthcoming 2002)
  An extensive listing of links to documents, grammars, dictionaries, related articles on the Web.
  
  
• Languages of Zambia Page (Lee S. Bickmore, Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Albany)
  A list of languages of Zambia and related links on Zambia.
  
  
• Luba-Kasai/Luba-Lulua -- Cilubà Language Resources and Online Dictionaries (David Joffe, AfricanLanguages.Com, Pretoria, South Africa)
  
  
• Maasai Language Project (Doris L. Payne et al., Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon)
  The web site offers a description of the project and a set of texts on the history and major features of the Maa language spoken in Kenya and Tanzania.
  
  
• Malagasy = Malgache
  • Dictionnaire français malgache -- Voyage linguistique autour de l'Ile Rouge (France)
    • Chansons
    • Contes et légendes
    
    
  • Ny Haisoratra Malagasy
    Un site qui est consacré à la littérature malgache...en français et en malgache.
  
  
• Mandekan. (Online): Numeros sélectionnés et Tables de matières. -- Villejuif, France: LLACAN--Langage, Langues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire, 1981-
  Un bulletin spécialisé des études linguistiques mandé...paraît environ 2 fois par an.
  
  
• Mandinka and Wolof Resources (Momodou Camara, DAPAMDA--Danish Association for Promotion of African Music, Drama & Art, Copenhagen)
  • This webpage consists of links to downloadable dictionaries and grammars in PDF format. See:  Word Search and the larger The Gambia Resource Page.
  • For other resources, see also: SIL: Preliminary report on...Manding languages (2004) --and-- N'ko -- The Mandingo Language Site below.
  
  
• Kandeer-Manjaku.Com: le site de référence de la langue et de la culture Manjaku dans la diversité de leurs aspects. (René Gomis, France?)
  Un site qui est consacré à la culture Manjaku du Sénégal et de la Guinée Bissau. Voir surtout: La langue Manjaku et son peuple.
  
  
• Michigan State University: Webbook of African Language Resources In consultation with the African Language Teachers Association. (East Lansing, Michigan)
  An extensive bibliographic database of publications and resources for African language study.
  
  
• National African Language Resource Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
  • "The National African Language Resource Center is a federally funded, nonprofit national foreign language center dedicated to the advancement of African language teaching and learning in the United States."
  • African Language Program Inventory List (2001)
  
  
• Niger-Congo Noun Class Studies: A Bibliographical Survey, compiled by Jouni Filip Maho (2007) Electronic bibliography for African languages and linguistics. (via Stockholm, Sweden)
  
  
• Nilo-Saharan Newsletter = Informations nilo-sahariennes (via CNRS-LLACAN, Villejuif, France)
  • Ce site --en français ou en anglais-- est consacré aux études et recherches concernant les langues nilo-sahariennes, qui sont parlées au centre et à l'est du continent africain. Vous trouverez ici: un "who's who" (provisoire) des études nilo-sahariennes; une liste d'institutions (universités, centres de recherche, éditeurs...) en relation avec le domaine; des annonces de colloques, etc.
  • Liste de publications
  • 10th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium = 10ème Colloque de Linguistique Nilo-Saharienne, Paris, France, 22-24 août 2007
  
  
• N'ko -- The Mandingo Language Site (Mamadi Baba Diané, Washington, DC)
  A site --in English, French, Arabic, and Mandekan in N'ko script-- about the N'ko script, with links to the major web sites on the subject in France, Belgium, United States, and Africa. There is also a list of books published in the N'ko script.
  
  
• Babawilly's Dictionary of Pidgin English Words and Phrases (Lagos Pidgin) (via NigeriaExchange.Com; Dearborn, Michigan and Lagos, Nigeria)
  
  
• Pular on the Web
  • Dental Doole Ɓamtaare: Muritani (2007) = Union des Forces de Progrès: Mauritanie (France)
    
    
  • Nanondiral Winndereyankeewal Hakkeeje Aade = Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
    -- Dakar, Senegal: United Nations Information Centre ; via United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland, 1998. (HTML or PDF version)
    
    
  • Pulaagu.Com: le portail du Pulaar et des Fulbe! (Paris)
    Remarque: Pour le meilleur survol de ce site, utilisez "Firefox"! C'est un portail des actualités du monde en pulaar, un recueil des articles en français (ou en anglais) sur les Peuls et leur histoire, un blog, et plusieurs autres sortes d'information sur la culture africaine et les peuples africains en pulaar/fulfuldé.
    
    
  • Pulaar/Fulfulde on the Web! English-Fulfulde (Maasina)/ English-Pulaar (Senegal) / Pulaar-English Dictionary (Martha R. O'Kennon, Albion College, Albion, Michigan)
    
    
  • Pular Resources: Midho Waawi Pular! = Learner's guide to Pular (Fuuta Jallon) (Herb Caudill and Ousmane Baesseko Diallo, Washington, DC)
    A downloadable (PDF), introductory guide to Pular as spoken in Guinea and southeastern Senegal...originally compiled for U.S. Peace Corps Volunteers.
    
    
  • SenegalTV HalPulaar -- Vidéos (Dakar)
    Il faut télécharger le logiciel eQoonWebPlayer pour regarder ces fichiers vidéos dédiée à la culture et au sport.
    
    
  
  
• SCALI--Summer Cooperative African Language Institute, June 8--August 1, 2008, Center for African Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  "...the national SCALI during the summer session 2007...offers performance-based instruction in a variety of African languages by experienced and trained instructors who are native speakers of the languages they teach."
  
  
• Sesotho on the Web
  • Online Sesotho sa Leboa (Northern Sotho) -- English Dictionary Using Tshwanelex. (via AfricanLanguages.Com, David Joffe, Pretoria, South Africa)
  • Sesotho Web Site (J. Olivier, Rethabile Masilo, and Tebello Thejane; South Africa)
    A very basic and short primer in Southern Sesotho; some links, especially on Lesotho, and no sound files.
  
  
• Shona Language Resources
  • Introduction to the Shona Language (Cameron Smith, UK)
    Brief lessons in Shona and links to Shona language-related sites.
  • ALLEX Project--African Languages Lexical Project (University of Oslo, Norway)
    The website includes online versions of whole dictionaries and text corpora for Shona and Ndebele. "The ALLEX Project seeks ...to provide dictionaries and other language tools for the African languages used in Zimbabwe; to train Zimbabwean linguists at the University of Zimbabwe as lexicographers and practical language planners; to lay the foundation for a centre for lexicography and language planning for the native languages of Southern Africa; and to improve research opportunities in linguistics."
  • University of Florida Libraries' "George Fortune Collection" of Shona and Other African Language Materials (Dan Reboussin; George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida)
    An online index to holdings in SHONA especially ... but also: Nguni (Ndebele, Zulu, and Xhosa) and Sotho. The materials span the years 1868-1983 and include some 1,800 items. 'The collection also includes a significant complement of Central and Eastern Bantu materials and a component of West African language materials.'
  
  
• SIL International (Dallas, Texas)
  • The web site includes a newsletter, online publications (PDF format), and links to related matters---including SIL's well-known reference publication: Ethnologue. "Founded 70 years ago (originally as the Summer Institute of Linguistics), SIL International is a faith-based organization that studies, documents, and assists in developing the world's lesser known languages. SIL's staff shares a Christian commitment to service, academic excellence, and professional engagement through literacy, linguistics, translation, and other academic disciplines."
  • SIL International Home Page
  • "A preliminary report of existing information on the Manding languages of West Africa" (2004). By Terrence D. Sullivan.
  • "Bwa Bloc Survey Report" (2004). By Douglas W. Boone, Kenneth S. Olson.
  • "An evaluation of Niger-Congo Classification" (2004). By Kenneth S. Olson.
  
  
• SomaliNet (Kendid Communications, Toronto, Canada)
  An extensive Internet portal site in English and Soomaali on Somalia and the Somali diaspora; includes current news in English from major Western news agencies.
  
  
• Soninkara (Paris, France)
  • Un site qui offre un recueil des images et des résumés utiles sur la culture contemporaine et l'histoire des peuples soninkés dans les pays du Sénégal, du Mali, de la Mauritanie et de la Gambie.
  • Extraits de contes et poèmes en Soninké
  
  
• Publishers' Association of South Africa: Writings in Nine Tongues -- Catalogue of Publications: Ndebele, Xhosa, Zulu, Sesotho/Sesotho sa laboa, Setswana, Siswati, Venda, Tsonga. (Green Point, South Africa)
  Zip files/PDF format
  
  
• South African Voices University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. (Madison, Wisconsin)
  "South African Voices is a three-volume work that includes: A Long Time Passed, Created in Olden Times, and The Way We Travelled: Oral History and Poetry. This work consists of electronic audio files and transcribed written texts of oral traditions and histories, poetry, folktales, and stories in Xhosa, Zulu, and Siswati collected, transcribed, and edited by Professor Harold Scheub.
  
  
• Sudlangues. (Online) -- Dakar, Sénégal: La Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, 2002-
  << [Cette revue] est destinée aux universitaires, enseignants, chercheurs et étudiants intervenant dans le secteur des sciences du langage. Elle est ouverte à tous les chercheurs du monde, et accordera une attention toute particulière à ceux du sud, plus confrontés à des problèmes d'édition.>>
  
  
• Swahili Language on the Internet
  
  
• TAMA 2003 South Africa--Technology in Advanced Management Applications Conference, 17-21 February 2003, Pretoria, South Africa: "Multilingual Knowledge and Technology Transfer."
  This website contains general information, thematic outlines and the programme. Warning: no abstracts.
  
  
• "Traitement informatique des langues africaines: problèmes et perspectives" (décembre 1995). Par Emile Camara [...et alli.] ALAF-Action de Recherche Partagée AUPELF-UREF. (Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France)
  
  
• Ugandan and English Language "Discussion Topics" from The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS, Cape Town, South Africa)
  These web pages, part of a larger website for CASAS, feature brief reports on various community education and social research topics in English and in several Ugandan languages--Luganda/Lusoga, Acholi/Lango, Runyakitara, and Ateso/Karimojong (with spoken word accompaniment).
  
  
• Web Resources for African Languages (Jouni F. Maho, Göteborg University, Södra Anneberg, Partille, Sweden)
  A basic introduction to African language classification and selected links to African linguistic studies for each major language---online articles and conference proceedings, etc.; plus links to conference web sites, selected online journals, and related web pages, etc.
  
  
• Wolof Language on the Internet
  • Association Nationale pour l'Alphabétisation et la Formation des Adultes (ANAFA, Dakar, Sénégal)
    -- NEPAD: jappoo gu bees ngir suqali Afrik (oktoobar 2003)
    -- Sartu Afrig ci acqi doomi aadama yeek vu askan yi (1995)
    
    
  • "Apprendre le wolof, langue la plus utilisée au Sénégal" -- toutelewolof.com (Denys Lamontagne, Thot/Cursus Inc., Québec, Canada)
    Ce site offre un lexique français-wolof.
    
    
  • "Chants wolof et la sagesse de Ncothie Barma" (1978) publiés par Charles Becker et Mohamed Mbodj. Format PDF. (Bibliothèque virtuelle, Département d'Histoire, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Sénégal)
    
    
  • Grammaire de la langue woloffe par M. L'Abbé Boilat (1868) -- Paris: L'Imprimerie imperiale, 1858.
    411 pp., index. via Google Books
    
    
  • The Lord's Prayer in Wolof (David G. Landsnes, "Ave Maria in 404 lingue", Milan; via Christus Rex, Inc.)
    
    
  • Pasteef: Geestu Gëstu Gindiku (Xam-xam bu amul xájjale = Open Knowledge Network Francophone, Dakar, Sénégal)
    "Pax mi am ci diggante réewi tugal yi ak yu Afrig walla Asi réy na lool. Ci biir weccalante gi askan yooyu di def, gis nanu ni kàllaamay angale walla farañse moo ci ëpp. Loolu bokk na ci li gën a sabbab juddug pénc mii. Ku nekk xam nga ni amul benn réew walla askan bu mën a suqaliku ludul ci kallaamaam."
    
    
  • "Proverbes et énigmes wolof cités dans le Dictionnaire wolof-français de Mgr. Kobès et du R.P. Abiven" (1978) publiés par Charles Becker, Victor Martin, et Mohamed Mbodj. Format PDF. (Bibliothèque virtuelle, Département d'Histoire, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Sénégal)
    
    
  • Les proverbes wolof du Sénégal: 123 proverbes en ligne (AuSenegal.Com, Dakar)
    
    
  • Radio Futurs Médias -- Radio RFM 94.0 FM Dakar (via L'Observateur et SenebwebNetwork, Dakar, Sénégal)
    Le site web de la Radio RFM en langue française, wolof et pulaar...avec RFM Live! (en formats RealPlayer ou Windows MediaPlayer)
    
    
  • Radio Sud FM 98.5 -- On Air. Avec RealPlayer. (Dakar, Sénégal)
    Voir aussi, la page d'accueil de SudFM SenRadio, y compris les dernières éditions et la revue de presse en wolof ou en français.
    
    
  • "Des représentations du temps en wolof" par Loïc-Michel Perrin (2005), Thèse de doctorat soutenue à l'Université Paris VII Dénis Diderot, France. Archive de la revue Marges linguistiques. (2001-2006) Supplément de TEXTO!: textes et cultures. (Online) janvier 2007. -- Paris: Institut Ferdinand de Saussure, 2007. (715 pages en format PDF)
    
    
  • United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Wolof Version (UN Information Centre, Dakar, Senegal; via Switzerland)
    In HTML or downloadable PDF.
    
    
  • Wolof and Mandinka Resources and  Word Search Excerpts from The Gambia Resource Page (Momodou Camara, DAPAMDA--Danish Association for Promotion of African Music, Drama & Art, Copenhagen)
    Downloadable dictionaries and grammars:
    -- Wollof-English Dictionary. (Online) -- Banjul, The Gambia: Peace Corps, 1995. via DAPAMDA--Danish Association for Promotion of African Music, Drama & Art, Copenhagen, Denmark. PDF version only.
    --  Wollof grammar manual. (Online) -- Banjul, The Gambia: Peace Corps, 1995. via DAPAMDA--Danish Association for Promotion of African Music, Drama & Art, Copenhagen, Denmark. PDF version only.
    
    
  • Wolof Ci Web Bi = Wolof sur le Web (Loïc-Michel Perrin, Villejuif, France)
    Ce site offre un recueil d'articles, de bibliographies, d'exemples linguistiques, et de liens sur la linguistique du wolof.
    -- "Parole chantée ou psalmodiée wolof: collecte, typologie et analyse des procédés argumentatifs de connivence associés aux fonctions discursives de satire et d'éloge," par Momar Cisse (2006). Thèse de doctorat de linguistique, soutenue le 26 janvier 2006, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Sénégal. 698 pages en format PDF
    
    
  • Wolof Online (Mark Davies, USA)
    An online Wolof primer -- subscription required. The site offers a free lesson module in Wolof numbers -- best viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer.
    
    
  • The World Bank:  Sémbu Xam-Xami Cossan Ngir Yokkute Gi = Programme Connaissances Autochotones Pour le Développement = Indigenous Knowledge Program (Washington, DC)
  
  
• 4th World Congress of African Linguistics and 34th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, June 17-22, 2003, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  General information and call for papers. The deadline for abstracts is December 17, 2002.
  
  
• Xhosa on the Web -- English-to-Xhosa / Xhosa-to-English Translation (1996) (Martha O'Kennon [et al.], Mathematics Department, Albion College, Albion, Missouri)
  See also: South African Voices above.
  
  
• Yoruba on the Web
  • United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Yoruba Version (Switzerland)
    In HTML or downloadable PDF.
    
    
  • Yoruba -- Learn Yoruba Home Page (BIS BUS International, Ontario, Canada)
    This website offers a basic primer, with audio files and downloadable font; plus information on a publication Yoruba language learning = Yorùbá mõ ön kô, mõ ön ká to be ordered.
  
  
• Zarma Dictionary = Dictionnaire Zarma Bisharat! (The Netherlands)
  A short multilingual dictionary originally developed by the U.S. Peace Corps, Niger, revised 2001 and 2004.
  
  
• Zulu Language on the Internet
  • isiZulu.net: Zulu-English/English-Zulu online dictionary (via Schlund & Partner, Karlsruhe, Germany)
    An online dictionary, with some sample audio files, based on African Voices publications from South Africa, and compiled with TshwaneLex software.
    
    
  • Google.Com -- IsiZulu (USA)
    Search the web using Google web search engine in IsiZulu!
    
    
  • Isolezwe. (Online) -- Cape Town ; Johannesburg: Independent Online Ltd., 2006-
    A subscription is required for this online version of a daily newspaper in the Zulu language from South Africa.
    
    
  • Jason Wolfe's English to Zulu Medical Dictionary (1998) (London, UK)
    
    
  • South African Voices. University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. (See above)
    
    
  • Wordgumbo: English-Zulu/Zulu-English lexicons (USA)