UCLA Library Information Resources on African Languages
INFORMATION RESOURCES OF INDIVIDUAL AFRICAN LANGUAGES TAUGHT IN THE UNITED STATES (Selected Online & Print Resources)
Languages covered: Afrikaans Amharic, Bambara, Berber, Ewe, Fulani, Hausa, Igbo, Lingala, Malagasy, Mende, Oromo, Shona, Somali, Swahili, Tigrinya, Twi, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, and Zulu (for quantitative collection distribution of individual languages materials within UCLA Libraries, their classification and other parameters, click here)
See also EHRAF collection of ethnography (electronic resources restricted to UC campuses)
At UCLA, Afrikaans language courses are offered and taught under the Department of Germanic Languages (other African language programs at UCLA are under the auspices of the African Studies Center of the UCLA International Institute).
LMP Afrikaans Language Profile
Teaching and Authentic Materials for Afrikaans -- UCLA- LMP
South African Languages -- by Jako Olivier
Afrikaans: Wikibooks, Collection of Open-Content Textbooks --Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
The Development of Afrikaans -- NEDWEB
Afrikaans Language Resources-- from AboutMongabay.com
Influence of English on Afrikaans: A case study of linguistic change in a language contact situation.
(B.C. Donaldson, 1988).
Call Number: PF861 .D663
Afrikaans poems with English translations
(edited by A. P. Grove & C. J. D. Harvey; 1963, 1964).
Call Number: PT6560 .G66a
Youngest literary language: The story of Afrikaans
(Roy Macnab, 1973).
Call Number: PF861 .M23y
Teach yourself Afrikaans
(Lydia McDermott, 2005).
Call Number: PF861 .M347 2005
Language policy formulation and implementation in the South African apartheid state: Mother tongue and Afrikaans as media of instruction in black primary and secondary schools, 1953-1979
(Melvyn Douglas November, 1991).
Call Number: LD791.9.E22 N858
Development of Afrikaans
(Fritz Ponelis, 1993).
Call Number: PF861 .P75 1993
Formation of Afrikaans
(Paul T. Roberge)
Call Number: P1 .S75 no.27
Comparative studies in Germanic syntax: From Afrikaans to Zurich German
(edited by Jutta M. Hartmann, La´szlo´ Molna´rfi, 2006)
Call Number: PD361 .W67 2005
Teaching and Authentic Materials for Amharic -- UCLA- LMP
Amharic Language Resources -- from About Mongabay.com
Amharic cultural reader
(Wolf Leslau and Thomas L. Kane, 2001)
Call Number: PJ9213 .A565 2001
Amharic for foreign beginners
(Alem Eshetu, 1998)
Call Number: PJ9213 .A435 1998
Colloquial Amharic: A complete language course
( David Appleyard, 1995).
Call Number: PJ9208.8 .A67 1995
Amharic for foreigners: Based on standard American phonetic system
(Semere Woldegabir, 1989).
Call Number: PJ9223 .W665 1989
Teaching and Authentic Materials for Amharic -- UCLA- LMP
Bambara Language Resources -- from About Mongabay.com
Sagesse bambara: Proverbes et sentences
(Charles Bailleul, 2005)
Call Number: PN6519.B3 B35 2005
Parlons bambara: Langue et culture bambara
(Ismae¨l Maiga, 2001).
Call Number: PL8049.B3 M24 2001
Le bambara du Mali: Essais de description linguistique
(Ge´rard Dumestre, 1994).
Call Number: PL8049.B31 D86 1994
Buffoons, queens, and wooden horsemen: The Dyo and Gouan societies of the Bambara of Mali
(Pascal James Imperato, 1983)
Call Number: DT551.45.B35 I45 1983
Ancient Scripts: Berber and Tifinagh -- by Lawrence Lo
Berber Languages -- from Wikipedia, Free Online Encyclopedia
The Berber Language (Tamazight) – from Amazigh World (see also important links on Berber culture)
Berber World -- from BerberWorldCom
Berber Language Page -- African Studies Center, Michigan State University
Berber Languages -- an article from Encyclopedia Britannica Online
A bibliography of Berber Language Materials – by Kyra Jucovy & John Alderete, Swarthmore College
Berber -- an article from Encylopaedia of the Orient
Berber Branch -- from the National Virtual Translation Center's Languages of the World
Tamazight, Central Atlas: A Language of Morocco – from Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Berber Language Resources -- from Universal Dictionary
Berber Language Resources -- from About Mongabay.com
Les jeunes Marocains et leurs langues
(Jan Jaap De Ruiter, 2006)
Call Number: P40.45.M8 .R858 2006
Tamashek texts from Timbuktu and Kidal (Mali)
(Jeffrey Heath, 2005)
Call Number: PJ2381.2 .H43 2005
Berber loanwords in Hausa
(Maarten Kossmann, 2005)
Call Number: PL8231 .K67 2005
ABC amazigh : une expérience éditoriale en Algérie, (1996-2001)
(Smaïl Medjeber, 2005)
Call Number:PJ2343 .M44 2005
A Tarifit Berber-English dictionary: Documenting an Endangered Language
(Clive W. McClelland, III, 2004)
Call Number:PJ2377.4 .M38 2004
Ideqqi, art de femmes berbères
(Marie-France Vivier, 2007)
Call Number:NK4174.6.A1 I34 2007
The Maghrib in the new century: Identity, religion, and politics
(Edited by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman and Daniel Zisenwine, 2007)
Call Number:DT204 .M27 2007
Origin and development of the Libyco-Berber script
(Werner Pichler, 2007)
Call Number:(In process) 2007
Voyage au pays des Chleuhs, Maroc, début du XXIe siècle: les guerriers laboureurs de l’Atlas
(Renaud de Sinety, 2007)
Call Number:(In process) 2007
Berbères ou Arabes?: le tango des spécialistes
(Hélène Claudot-Hawad [coord.], 2006)
Call Number: DT193.5.B45 B47 2006
Amazigh arts in Morocco: Women shaping Berber identity
(Cynthia J. Becker, 2006)
Call Number: NX587.75.A1 B43 2006
Women, gender, and language in Morocco
(Fatima Sadiqi, 2003)
Call Number:PJ6074 .S25 2003
Teaching and Authentic Materials for Ewe -- UCLA- LMP
Ewe Language -- from Wikipedia, Free Online Encyclopedia
Ewe language Resources -- from About Mongabay.com
Ewe Language Information Resources -- from AIL International
Ewe Language Resources -- From Verba Africana
Ewe Language -- from Ethnologue
Bibliography of Gbe: (Ewe, Gen, Aja, Xwala, Fon, Gun, etc.): Publications on and in the language
(A.S. Duthie, 1981)
Call Number: Z7108.E85 D87 1981
Ewe as a second language [microform]: A sociolinguistic survey of Ghana’s Central Volta region
(Ring, James Andrew, 1981)
Record ID: 4771810
Teaching and Authentic Materials for Fulani -- UCLA- LMP
Fulani Language Resources -- from About Mongabay.com
Teaching and Authentic Materials for Hausa -- UCLA- LMP
Hausa Online Dictionary -- by Franz Stoiber
Telling stories, making histories: Women, words, and Islam in nineteenth-century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate
(Mary Wren Bivins, 2007)
Call Number: DT515.45.H38 B58 2007
Teaching and Authentic Materials for Igbo -- UCLA- LMP
Igbo Language Resources -- from About Mongabay.com
Teaching and Authentic Materials for Lingala -- UCLA- LMP
Lingala Language Resources -- from About Mongabay.com
Teaching and Authentic Materials for Malagasy -- UCLA- LMP
Malagasy Language Resources -- from About Mongabay.com
Teaching and Authentic Materials for Mende -- UCLA- LMP
Mende Language Resources -- from About Mongabay.com
Teaching and Authentic Materials for Oromo Language -- UCLA- LMP
Oromo Language Resources -- from About Mongabay.com
Teaching and Authentic Materials for Shona Language -- UCLA-LMP
Shona Language Resources -- from About Mongabay.com
Teaching and Authentic Materials for Somali Language -- UCLA-LMP
Somali Language Resources -- from About Mongabay.com
Teaching and Authentic Materials for Swahili -- UCLA-LMP
The Internet Swahili Living Dictionary -- Yale University
Deutsche Welle Online -- Swahili
Swahili Proverbs -- Kiswahili Resource Center, University of Kansas
Helsinki Corpus of Swahili -- University of Helsinki, Institute for Asian and African Studies
Swahili Language Resources -- from About Mongabay.com
Swahili manuscripts from the School of Oriental and African Studies [microform].
(Published/distributed: Marlborough, Wiltshire, England : Adam Matthew Publications; 2004)
Call Number: Microfilm Z6605.S85 S93 2004 (see also Online Catalogue of Manuscripts)
The Swahili and Arabic manuscripts and tapes in the library of the University College Dar-es-Salaam: A catalogue.
(by J. W. T. Allen, 1970)
Call Number: Z6605.S85 A42
A poem concerning the death of the prophet Muhammad = Utendi wa kutawafu Nabii: A traditional Swahili epic, with transliteration, translation, and notes on the reading of Swahili manuscripts in Arabic script for advanced students [Utendi wa kutawafu Nabii. English & Swahili]
(edited by J.W.T. Allen ... [et al.], 1991)
Call Number: PL8704.U76 E5 1991
Language and colonial power: The Appropriation of Swahili in the Former Belgian Congo 1880-1938.
(Fabian, Johannes, 1986, 1991)
Call Number: PL8704.Z9 ; also available online (restricted to UC campuses)
Swahili beyond the boundaries: Literature, language, and identity
(by Alamin Mazrui, 2007)
Call Number: PL8703.5 .M25 2007
Description du kikae: Parler swahili du sud de Zanzibar. Suivie de Cinq contes
(by Odile Racine-Issa, 2002)
Call Number: PL8704.Z9 K337 2002
Teaching and Authentic Materials for Tigrinya -- from UCLA-LMP
Tigrinya Language Resources -- from About Mongabay.com
Twi Language Resources -- from About Mongabay.com
Ghana in the humanities and social science, 1900-1971
(Aguolu, Christian Chukwunedu; 1973)
Call Number: Z3785 .A284g
Teaching and Authentic Materials for Wolof -- from UCLA-LMP
Wolof Language Resources -- from About Mongabay.com
Janga Wolof: Wolof Language and Culture Blog -- from WorldPressCom
Teaching and Authentic Materials for Xhosa -- from UCLA-LMP
Xhosa Language Resources -- from About Mongabay.com
Teaching and Authentic Materials for Yoruba -- from UCLA-LMP
Yoruba at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yoruba Language Resources -- from About Mongabay.com
Teaching and Authentic Materials for Zulu -- from UCLA-LMP
Zulu Language Resources -- from About Mongabay.com
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