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UCLA Library Information Resources on African Languages & Culture

The UCLA's Young Research Library maintains rich collections of African languages and African studies information resources in support of academic research and training in those areas. These resources are held both physically within the library system and virtually through access to remote sources, and include both vernacular and English language materials. The materials include those relating to African languages taught in the United States, notably Afrikaans, Amharic, Bambara, Berber, Ewe, Fulani, Hausa, Igbo, Lingala, Malagasy, Mende, Oromo, Shona, Somali, Swahili, Tigrinya, Twi, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, and Zulu. While some of these languages – Afrikaans, Amharic, Bambara, Ewe, Hausa, Swahili, Twi, Wolof, Yoruba and Zulu -- have been taught at UCLA, various multidisciplinary researchers at UCLA African Studies Center invariably study countries or regions where these and nearly 2000 other African languages are spoken. This is because languages have wider socio-cultural and public policy implications for national and international interests. In addition, individual students receive need-based tutorials on any language not regularly taught at UCLA. Quantitatively, the holdings in and about the above African languages at UCLA Libraries range from 4,229 to 12,204 depending on search strategies (such as combinations of variant names of individual languages as keywords). Due to library space limitations, some of the materials are housed in the Southern Regional Library Facility (SRLF) but they are readily available on request. The links below will guide scholars in African languages and related studies to UCLA Library collections along with relevant online resources, including open-access sources. Users interested in viewing recently-acquired materials can visit the Library catalog using the Beta RSS Feeds Service.

Accessing Information Resources on African Languages via UCLA Libraries

• A Guide to Sources of Information Resources on African Languages
• Selected Materials for Researchers on African Languages and Culture
• Distribution of Vernacular and General Collections of Key African Languages in UCLA Libraries
• Information Resources of Individual African Languages Taught in the United States

Related Resources

• Information Resources and Programs on African Languages and Studies from other Institutions
• News/Articles/Reports Related to Information Resources on African Languages and Studies
• Cultural Resources/Collections in Los Angeles Area and Beyond

UCLA Library Collections and Internet Resources in African Studies
UCLA Library Online Materials
UCLA Library Research Guides to Information Resources in the Humanities and Social Sciences
UCLA Young Research Library (YRL)
UCLA YRL Information Literacy & Instruction
UCLA Center for World Languages
UCLA Language Materials Project
University of California Los Angeles, UCLA

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