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| language map of africa: A Sketch of the Modern Languages of Africa Robert Needham Cust, 1883 |
| language map of africa: A Sketch of the Modern Languages of Africa Robert Needham Cust, 1883 |
| language map of africa: A Sketch of the Modern Languages of Africa Robert N. Cust, 2021-05-06 |
| language map of africa: A Sketch of the Modern Languages of Africa: Accompanied by a Language Map; Robert Needham Cust, 2019-02-23 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
| language map of africa: A Sketch Of The Modern Languages Of Africa Robert Needham Cust, 2023-07-18 Drawing on his extensive travels throughout Africa, Cust provides an in-depth survey of the continent's linguistic landscape. This book covers over thirty distinct language families, examining the similarities and differences between them. It is an essential resource for linguists, anthropologists, and anyone interested in African culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
| language map of africa: Linguistic Atlas of South Africa Izak J. Van der Merwe, J. H. Van der Merwe, 2006 |
| language map of africa: A Sketch of the Modern Languages of Africa Robert N. Cust, 2021-04-30 |
| language map of africa: Language and Development in Africa Ekkehard Wolff, 2016-05-26 This volume explores the central role of language across all aspects of public and private life in Africa. |
| language map of africa: Linguistic Atlas of South Africa Van der Merwe, I.J., Van der Merwe, J.H., 2007-02-01 This atlas maps various time-space dimensions of South Africa?s remarkable linguistic diversity to cast the geography of language within the conceptual framework of geolinguistics. It shows how historical patterns of spatial language preponderance have developed to produce current patterns and allows understanding of the way landscape has become regionally ingrained in the vocabulary of languages. Here language is cast as a barometer of the social dynamics processes of space and place: spatial convergence, regional competition, expansion and dominance, segregation and assimilation, ethnicity, social ecology, language identity, social interaction and migration trends. |
| language map of africa: A Sketch of the Modern Languages of Africa Robert Needham Cust, 2016-05-20 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
| language map of africa: An Introduction to African Languages George Tucker Childs, 2003-01-01 This book introduces beginning students and non-specialists to the diversity and richness of African languages. In addition to providing a solid background to the study of African languages, the book presents linguistic phenomena not found in European languages. A goal of this book is to stimulate interest in African languages and address the question: What makes African languages so fascinating? The orientation adopted throughout the book is a descriptive one, which seeks to characterize African languages in a relatively succinct and neutral manner, and to make the facts accessible to a wide variety of readers. The author's lengthy acquaintance with the continent and field experiences in western, eastern, and southern Africa allow for both a broad perspective and considerable depth in selected areas. The original examples are often the author's own but also come from other sources and languages not often referenced in the literature. This text also includes a set of sound files illustrating the phenomena under discussion, be they the clicks of Khoisan, talking drums, or the ideophones (words like English lickety-split) found almost everywhere, which will make this book a valuable resource for teacher and student alike. |
| language map of africa: Africa Is Not a Country Margy Burns Knight, Mark Melnicove, 2002-01-01 Demonstrates the diversity of the African continent by describing daily life in some of its fifty-three nations. |
| language map of africa: Historical Atlas of Islam Malise Ruthven, Azim Nanji, 2004 Chronicles the history of Islam from the birth of Mohammed to the independence of former Soviet Muslim States, covering a wide variety of themes, including philosophy, arts, and architecture. |
| language map of africa: Tracing Language Movement in Africa Ericka A. Albaugh, Kathryn M. de Luna, 2018-01-10 The great diversity of ethnicities and languages in Africa encourages a vision of Africa as a fragmented continent, with language maps only perpetuating this vision by drawing discrete language groups. In reality, however, most people can communicate with most others within and across linguistic boundaries, even if not in languages taught or learned in schools. Many disciplines have looked carefully at language movement and change on the continent, but their lack of interaction has prevented the emergence of a cohesive picture of African languages. Tracing Language Movement in Africa gathers eighteen scholars together to offer a truly multidisciplinary representation of language in Africa, combining insights from history, archaeology, religion, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. The resulting volume illuminates commonalities and distinctions in these disciplines' understanding of language change and movement in Africa. The volume is empirical -- aiming to represent language more accurately on the continent -- as well as theoretical. It identifies the theories that each discipline uses to make sense of language movement in Africa in plain terms and highlights the themes that cut across all disciplines: how scholars use data, understand boundaries, represent change, and conceptualize power. The volume is organized to reflect differing conceptions of language that arise from its discipline-specific contributions: that is, tendencies to study changes that consolidate language or those that splinter it, viewing languages as whole or in part. Each contribution includes a short explanation of a discipline's theoretical and methodological approaches to language movement and change to ensure that the chapters are accessible to non-specialists, followed by an illustrative empirical case study. This volume will inspire multidisciplinary conversations around the study of language change in Africa, opening new interdisciplinary dialogue and spurring scholars to adapt the questions, data, and method of other disciplines to the problems that animate their own fields. |
| language map of africa: A Sketch of the Modern Languages of Africa Robert Needham Cust, 2015-02-17 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
| language map of africa: African Languages Bernd Heine, Derek Nurse, 2000-08-03 This book is an introduction to African languages and linguistics, covering typology, structure and sociolinguistics. The twelve chapters are written by a team of fifteen eminent Africanists, and their topics include the four major language groupings (Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Afroasiatic and Khoisan), the core areas of modern theoretical linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax), typology, sociolinguistics, comparative linguistics, and language, history and society. Basic concepts and terminology are explained for undergraduates and non-specialist readers, but each chapter also provides an overview of the state of the art in its field, and as such will be referred to also by more advanced students and general linguists. The book brings this range of material together in accessible form for anyone wishing to learn more about this challenging and fascinating field. |
| language map of africa: The Languages of Africa Joseph Harold Greenberg, 1966 |
| language map of africa: Language Decline and Death in Africa Herman Batibo, 2005-01-01 The aim of this book is to inform both scholars and the public about the nature and extent of the problem of language decline and death in Africa. It resourcefully traces the main causes and circumstances of language endangerment, the processes and extent of language shift and death, and the consequences of language loss to the continent's rich linguistic and cultural heritage. The book outlines some of the challenges that have emerged out of the situation. |
| language map of africa: The Oxford Handbook of African Languages Rainer Vossen, Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal, 2020 Une source inconnue indique : This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in African languages, drawing on insights from anthropological linguistics, typology, historical and comparative linguistics, and sociolinguistics. It covers a wide range of topics, from grammatical sketches of individual languages to sociocultural and extralinguistic issues. |
| language map of africa: A Sketch of the Modern Languages of Africa Robert Needham Cust, 1883 |
| language map of africa: The Language-families of Africa Alice Werner, 1915 |
| language map of africa: Sign Languages Diane Brentari, 2010-05-27 What are the unique characteristics of sign languages that make them so fascinating? What have recent researchers discovered about them, and what do these findings tell us about human language more generally? This thematic and geographic overview examines more than forty sign languages from around the world. It begins by investigating how sign languages have survived and been transmitted for generations, and then goes on to analyse the common characteristics shared by most sign languages: for example, how the use of the visual system affects grammatical structures. The final section describes the phenomena of language variation and change. Drawing on a wide range of examples, the book explores sign languages both old and young, from British, Italian, Asian and American to Israeli, Al-Sayyid Bedouin, African and Nicaraguan. Written in a clear, readable style, it is the essential reference for students and scholars working in sign language studies and deaf studies. |
| language map of africa: A Sketch of the Modern Languages of Africa: Volume I Robert Needham Cust, 2013-10-15 This volume I of three on series on Africa. It is part one and a look is a look at the old, extinct and mixed languages of Africa and was originally published in 1883. |
| language map of africa: Globalization and Language Vitality Cécile B. Vigouroux, Salikoko S. Mufwene, 2008-11-05 This book discusses the effects of globalization on languages in Africa. In contrast to previous studies, the contributors examine whether or not globalization is affecting African languages in the same ways and at the same rate in different countries, and how local experiences of language change vary from place to place. Rather than seeing English as the 'killer language' par excellence, the contributors probe ways in which languages are being used side by side to complement each other in some contexts while competing against European colonial languages in others. The result is a diverse canvas of language vitality in the African context, including matters of endangerment and loss, through the lense of globalization in its various interpretations. This book is a must read for students and researchers interested in language change and death and in the fate of European languages in the rest of the world. |
| language map of africa: Map Skills Asia (ENHANCED eBook) R. Scott House, Patti M. House, 2010-09-01 Explore the varied features of the Asian continent while reinforcing basic map reading skills. Sixteen student pages and accompanying blackline and full-color maps coordinate to provide a relational study of the elevation, vegetation, products, population, and peoples of Asia. Full-color maps are provided as transparencies for print books and PowerPoint slides for eBooks. Student pages challenge students to combine maps and additional resources in order to answer questions and make judgments. Question topics follow the Five Themes of Geography as outlined by the National Geographic Society: finding absolute and relative locations on a map, relating physical and human characteristics to an area, understanding human relationships to the environment, tracing movement of peoples and goods throughout an area, and organizing countries and continents into regions for detailed study. |
| language map of africa: The Transformative Power of Language Russell H. Kaschula, H. Ekkehard Wolff, 2020-09-10 A new study of the importance of language for sociocultural change in Africa, from postcolonial to globally competitive knowledge societies. |
| language map of africa: WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY. (PRODUCT ID 23958336). CAITLIN. FINLAYSON, 2019 |
| language map of africa: Europe, North Africa, and Southwest Asia United States. Central Intelligence Agency, 1986 |
| language map of africa: Handbook of the Changing World Language Map Stanley D. Brunn, Roland Kehrein, 2019-11-11 This reference work delivers an interdisciplinary, applied spatial and geographical approach to the study of languages and linguistics. This work includes chapters and sections related to language origins, diffusion, conflicts, policies, education/instruction, representation, technology, regions, and mapping. Also addressed is the mapping of languages and linguistic diversity, on language in the context of politics, on the relevance of language to cultural identity, on language minorities and endangered languages, and also on language and the arts and non-human language and communication. This reference work looks at the subject matter and contributors to the disciplines and programs in the social sciences and humanities, and the dearth of materials on languages and linguistics. The topics covered are not only discipline-centered, but in the cutting-edge fields that intersect several disciplines and also cut across the social sciences and humanities. These include gender studies, sustainability and development, technology and social media impacts, law and human rights, climate change, public health and epidemiology, architecture, religion, visual representation and mapping. These new and emerging research directions and other intersecting fields are not traditionally discipline-bounded, but cut across numerous fields. The volumes will appeal to those within existing fields and disciplines and those working the intersections at local, regional and global scales. |
| language map of africa: A Sketch of the Modern Languages of Africa: Volume II Robert Needham Cust, 2013-11-05 First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
| language map of africa: Africa George Peter Murdock, 1959 |
| language map of africa: A Catalogue of Maps, Charts, and Globes , 1898 |
| language map of africa: Language in Africa Edgar Gregersen, Edgar A. Gregersen, 1977 This book developed out of a survey course on African languages that Uriel Weinreich invited the author to teach at Columbia University. The focus of the course changed considerably in the years that the author taught the course (1964-1968), in large part to accommodate the interests of many students without a background in linguistics but registered for the course. The one thing African languages have in common, setting them off from all the other languages in the world, is the fact that they are spoken in Africa. |
| language map of africa: The classification of the Bantu languages Malcolm Guthrie, 1981 |
| language map of africa: The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Susanne Maria Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath, Magnus Huber, 2013-09-05 The Atlas presents commentaries and colour maps showing how 130 linguistic features - phonological, syntactic, morphological, and lexical - are distributed among the world's pidgins and creoles. Designed and written by the world's leading experts, it is a unique resource of outstanding value for linguists of all persuasions throughout the world. |
| language map of africa: The Church Missionary Atlas , 1896 |
| language map of africa: Atlas of the World's Languages R.E. Asher, Christopher Moseley, 2018-04-19 Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library. |
| language map of africa: Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, 2011-06-08 This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as an elementary introduction to the comparative method, involving the establishment of lexical and grammatical cognates, the reconstruction of their historical development, techniques for the subclassification of related languages, and the use of language-internal evidence, more specifically the application of internal reconstruction. Part II addresses language contact phenomena and the status of language in a wider, cultural-historical and ecological context. Part III deals with the relationship between comparative linguistics and other disciplines. In this rich course book, the author presents valuable views on a number of issues in the comparative study of African languages, more specifically concerning genetic diversity on the African continent, the status of pidginised and creolised languages, language mixing, and grammaticalisation. |
| language map of africa: The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature , 1906 |
| language map of africa: The Palgrave Handbook of Language Policies in Africa Esther Mukewa Lisanza, |
Languages of Africa - Wikipedia
Clickable map showing the traditional language families, subfamilies and major languages spoken in Africa. Most languages natively spoken in Africa belong to one of the two large language …
Map of the Distribution of African Languages - Nations Online …
There are four major groups of African languages: Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharian, Niger-Saharian (Niger-Congo), and Khoisan, on the map you see the distribution of language families and …
Detailed map of Africa's languages - Vivid Maps
Feb 21, 2017 · The indigenous languages of Africa are divided into 6 major language families: Afroasiatic, Nilo Saharan, Niger-Congo A, Niger-Congo B (Bantu), Khoisan, Austronesian. Map …
African Language Map | The African Language Program at …
Africa is home to an estimated 1000 to 2000 languages spread across the continent. A map showcasing some of the major languages of Africa by country. Image courtesy of MSU.
A language map of Africa - Library of Congress
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
File : Map of African languages.svg - Wikimedia
Oct 23, 2021 · English: Clickable map of African language families, subfamilies and major languages
Linguistic map of African languages - NTeALan
This interactive online map represents all the linguistic layers present in Africa. It identifies by city and country all the languages spoken, and provides details and technical and practical …
Africa - Cartes linguistiques / Linguistic maps - MuturZikin
Thousand African languages on maps .... Each country shows a linguistic diversity with geopraphic areas corresponding to the language / Des milliers de langues Africaines sur cartes …
Languages of Africa - Simple English Wikipedia, the free …
A map showing the six traditional language families in Africa. There are more than 3,000 languages spoken in Africa. [5] These languages are grouped into several major language …
Language Families of Africa - The Decolonial Atlas
Feb 19, 2015 · This map from Harvard’s AfricaMap project illustrates just how diverse the African continent really is. There are an estimated 1,000 to 2,000 languages spoken across Africa. The …
Languages of Africa - Wikipedia
Clickable map showing the traditional language families, subfamilies and major languages spoken in Africa. Most languages natively spoken in Africa belong to one of the two large language …
Map of the Distribution of African Languages - Nations Online …
There are four major groups of African languages: Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharian, Niger-Saharian (Niger-Congo), and Khoisan, on the map you see the distribution of language families and …
Detailed map of Africa's languages - Vivid Maps
Feb 21, 2017 · The indigenous languages of Africa are divided into 6 major language families: Afroasiatic, Nilo Saharan, Niger-Congo A, Niger-Congo B (Bantu), Khoisan, Austronesian. …
African Language Map | The African Language Program at Harvard
Africa is home to an estimated 1000 to 2000 languages spread across the continent. A map showcasing some of the major languages of Africa by country. Image courtesy of MSU.
A language map of Africa - Library of Congress
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
File : Map of African languages.svg - Wikimedia
Oct 23, 2021 · English: Clickable map of African language families, subfamilies and major languages
Linguistic map of African languages - NTeALan
This interactive online map represents all the linguistic layers present in Africa. It identifies by city and country all the languages spoken, and provides details and technical and practical …
Africa - Cartes linguistiques / Linguistic maps - MuturZikin
Thousand African languages on maps .... Each country shows a linguistic diversity with geopraphic areas corresponding to the language / Des milliers de langues Africaines sur …
Languages of Africa - Simple English Wikipedia, the free …
A map showing the six traditional language families in Africa. There are more than 3,000 languages spoken in Africa. [5] These languages are grouped into several major language …
Language Families of Africa - The Decolonial Atlas
Feb 19, 2015 · This map from Harvard’s AfricaMap project illustrates just how diverse the African continent really is. There are an estimated 1,000 to 2,000 languages spoken across Africa. …
