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Peer reviewedMiller-Ockhuizen, Amanda; Sands, Bonny E. – Language & Communication, 1999
Argues that linguists have ignored diversity within the northern Khoesan (NK) group of languages of Southern Africa and this has had serious repercussions both for speakers of these languages and for linguistic theory. The variation that appears within NK has been ignored in part because a single variety has been misunderstood as being the !Kung…
Descriptors: African Languages, Foreign Countries, Language Classification, Language Planning
PDF pending restorationOsaji, Bede – 1979
The languages of Nigeria and language usage in that country are discussed in a study designed to illustrate the need for a Nigerian lingua franca. Extensive data are first presented on Nigerian languages and dialects, their classification, and their geographic distribution. The remainder of the survey is devoted to a sociolinguistic study of…
Descriptors: African Languages, Bilingual Education, Dialect Studies, Dialects
Download full textBrann, Conrad Max Benedict – 1978
The linguistic situation in Nigeria might be represented as a pyramid with a base composed of 400-500 native languages of which about 100 have been alphabetized. Of these, 51 with more than 100,000 speakers each, are considered regional languages; ten, with more than 1 million speakers each, are considered inter-regional languages; and three…
Descriptors: African Languages, Arabic, Bilingualism, Educational Change
PDF pending restorationHodge, Carleton T. – 1974
This report is an attempt at revising the 1961 Fife-Nelsen report's list of priority African languages. In making decisions regarding priorities, the following kinds of data are considered most useful: statistical data on the languages involved, such as where the languages are spoken and how many people speak them; data on the cultural role of…
Descriptors: African Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Language Classification
Odumuh, Adama Emmanuel – 1994
A discussion of the situation of Idoma, a Nigerian language, begins with different accounts of the language's origin, referring to both local legend and cosmology. It then proceeds to a review of modern linguists' efforts, since 1927, to classify the language. A statistical overview contains information on the number of speakers of Idoma as a…
Descriptors: African Languages, Alphabets, Community Services, Diachronic Linguistics
Gregersen, Edgar A. – 1977
This is the first comprehensive study in English of African languages in the context of their cultural setting. It may be used as a basic text in survey courses on African languages as well as a supplemental text in practical language courses. No linguistic background is necessary for understanding this book--the basic concepts are explained,…
Descriptors: African Culture, African Languages, Anthropological Linguistics, Cultural Context
