• There are multiple languages spoken by the Ogoni. (wikipedia.org)
  • Other languages spoken in Sudan belong to three families of African languages: Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Niger-Congo. (who.int)
  • It belongs to the Bantu languages and is spoken by around 230,000 people in the Littoral province in the Nkam and Sanaga-Maritime districts and in the Center province in the Nyong-et-Kéllé district , mainly in the region around the city of Edéa , between Douala and Yaoundé and partly as a minority language in these two cities. (zxc.wiki)
  • In this dissertation I present the morphosyntax aspects of the personal pronouns in Anaang, a Niger-Congo language, belonging to the Ibom group, spoken by the Anaang people. (usp.br)
  • With over 2,000 distinct languages spoken across the continent, Africa is a linguistic treasure trove like no other. (margaretspicy.com)
  • The precise number of languages spoken is debated due to dialectical variations, but estimates range from 2,000 to 2,500. (margaretspicy.com)
  • This blog post showcases data and analysis featured on the new languages spoken indicator on CIDP by spotlighting the linguistic diversity and language access needs within Asian and Black immigrant communities. (usc.edu)
  • The languages spoken indicator provides a closer look into the varying experiences of immigrants from different racial backgrounds throughout the state. (usc.edu)
  • Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Korean were among the top 10 Asian languages spoken by immigrant Californians in 2019, with over 2.4 million speakers. (usc.edu)
  • South Asian languages such as Hindi were also among the top 10 languages spoken by over 175,000 immigrant Californians . (usc.edu)
  • Other languages spoken by immigrants such as Panjabi , Urdu, Marathi, Kannada, and Gujarathi are also visible in the language spoken indicators, demonstrating the linguistic and ethnic diversity of the state. (usc.edu)
  • It is also important to highlight the geographic diversity of Asian languages spoken throughout the state. (usc.edu)
  • For example, Hmong was one of the top 10 languages spoken among immigrants in places like Butte and Fresno Counties in 2019. (usc.edu)
  • and the top non-English languages spoken at home. (usc.edu)
  • Data from For more information, visit the California Immigrant Data Portal, https://immigrantdataca.org/indicators/languages-spoken?breakdown=by-race&immig=2 . (usc.edu)
  • There is just one nation in Africa whose official language is Spanish, however because of colonization all through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, many nations in Africa have small pockets the place Spanish remains to be spoken. (novel89.com)
  • Twi is a dialect of the Akan language (see figure below) spoken mostly by people in the Central, Eastern, Ashanti, and Brong-Ahafo regions of Ghana and the eastern parts of Ivory Coast. (unizin.org)
  • Asante Twi is the most spoken sub-dialect of the Akan language with nine million speakers residing primarily in the Ashanti region of Ghana. (unizin.org)
  • Nonetheless, it is used in Western languages by many Berber writers, such as the Kabyle Professor Salem … The Northern Berber languages are a dialect continuum spoken across the Maghreb, constituting a subgroup of the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family. (resurgenceofthewest.com)
  • The Northern Berber languages are a dialect continuum spoken across the Maghreb, constituting a subgroup of the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family. (resurgenceofthewest.com)
  • 2. the Bantu language spoken by this people. (en-academic.com)
  • The Central Delta, for instance, has 8 languages, the most widely spoken of them being Ogbia. (buzznigeria.com)
  • Lower and Upper Cross River boast over 20 general languages, with Lokaa and Ibibio being the most commonly spoken ones. (buzznigeria.com)
  • Meanwhile, the languages of Cross River State are spoken in 18 Local Govern ment Areas (LGAs) of the state. (buzznigeria.com)
  • All the languages spoken in Cross Rive r State fall within the Benue-Congo sub-family of the Niger- Congo phylum. (buzznigeria.com)
  • Because the rest of these languages have only about a hundred thousand speakers or less, despite the number of languages spoken in Cross River, they are all considered minority languages based on demographic factors. (buzznigeria.com)
  • Tuareg Language Facts: Tuareg is a Berber language or family of closely related languages spoken by the Tuareg, in parts of Mali, Niger, Algeria, Libya and Burkina Faso. (pauldingsigns.com)
  • We prefer students to work on a language which is still actively spoken, and to establish a field situation within a community in which it is the first language. (linguistlist.org)
  • 1 Tagdal and Tadaksahak are spoken by the Igdalen and Idaksahak, most likely descendants of semi-nomadic Tuareg-Berbers, located in both Niger and Mali, respectively. (genderi.org)
  • Tasawaq, spoken by a sedentary non-Berber people called the Isawaghan , is spoken in the villages of Ingal and Teggida-n-Tesumt in Niger. (genderi.org)
  • Igbo is a language spoken in Nigeria. (satvistomo.net)
  • The Kpelle language forms a linguistic continuum between its three main identifiable varieties: Guinean Kpelle, Liberian Kpelle, and Kono spoken in Guinea. (languagesandnumbers.com)
  • This is because the multiplicity of languages in Nigeria has some influence on the English spoken by Nigerians. (codemint.net)
  • English as a first language, however, remains an exclusive preserve of a small minority of the country's urban elite, and is not spoken at all in some rural areas. (commisceo-global.com)
  • I have termed this the "Afro-Asiatic Dominion" because the languages spoken by these peoples would be classified in the Afro-Asiatic language family. (blogspot.com)
  • More than 50 national languages, some of them more colourful than others, are used in the country alongside French which is the official and most commonly spoken language in towns. (who.int)
  • About 20 national languages are most commonly spoken. (who.int)
  • In 2010 she studied the linguistic expressions and cultural representations of mental illness among the Gun (Gbe - Niger-Congo) of Benin and since December 2012 she's been studying the language and Culture of the Okiek (Kalenjin - Nilo-Saharan) of Kenya. (units.it)
  • These languages belong to several language families, with Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan, Niger-Congo, and Khoisan being some of the major ones. (margaretspicy.com)
  • Gorwaa (South-Cushitic, Afro-Asiatic), Hadza (isolate), and Ihanzu (Bantu (F-group), Niger-Congo) are three of the least documented languages of the Tanzanian Rift Valley linguistic area. (elararchive.org)
  • Ometo languages - Ometo Geographic distribution: Ethiopia Linguistic classification: Afro Asiatic Omotic North Gonga-Gimojan … Wikipedia. (resurgenceofthewest.com)
  • Omotic Geographic distribution: Ethiopia Linguistic classification: Afro Asiatic Omotic Subdivisions: North Omotic … Wikipedia. (resurgenceofthewest.com)
  • the Afro-Asiatic Amazigh (Berber) languages, for instance, bear witness to the long and brilliant Roman period in North Africa that ended in the 7th century. (resurgenceofthewest.com)
  • Unlike some members of the Afro-Asiatic phylum, Berber languages are not tone languages. (resurgenceofthewest.com)
  • Geographic distribution: Libya, Egypt: Linguistic classification: Afro-Asiatic. (resurgenceofthewest.com)
  • Berber languages, also called Amazigh languages, family of languages in the Afro-Asiatic language phylum. (pauldingsigns.com)
  • Václav Blažek believes that Elamite is an Afro-Asiatic language, and David McAlpin finds a genetic relation between the Elamite and Dravidian languages. (blogspot.com)
  • Both are languages of the ancient Afro-Asiatic Dominion which extended from the Nile to the Indus River Valley and into ancient Anatolia and Bactria. (blogspot.com)
  • These languages are particularly intriguing not only because of the bewildering diversity in the ditransitive domain, but also because they present a number of challenges for ditransitive typology. (reichert-verlag.de)
  • Apart from descriptive work on Siberian (in particular, Tungusic) languages, his main research interests lie in the domain of language typology. (reichert-verlag.de)
  • Dienekes, The forthcoming issue of Linguistic Typology has about 10 critical papers of both Atkinson 2011 and Dunn et al. (blogspot.com)
  • PhD scholarships in grammatical description The Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, invites applications from suitably qualified students to enter the PhD program. (linguistlist.org)
  • The Research Centre for Linguistic Typology consists, at any one time, of about twenty scholars, working on a variety of languages and typological issues. (linguistlist.org)
  • Independent of self-identified ethno-linguistic labels, the vast majority (97.3%) of individuals have mixed ancestry, with evidence of multiple ancestries in 96.8% of samples and on all continents. (nature.com)
  • and (4) increasing funding to scale-up the production of African genomic data that will be more representative of the geographical and ethno-linguistic variation on the continent. (bvsalud.org)
  • The largest is Khana, which mutually intelligible with the dialects of the other kingdoms, Gokana, Tae (Tẹẹ), and Baen Ogoi part of the linguistic diversity of the Niger Delta. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, it is Africa's linguistic diversity that truly sets it apart. (margaretspicy.com)
  • Despite the richness of Africa's linguistic diversity, many indigenous languages are endangered due to various factors, including urbanization, globalization, and the prioritization of colonial languages. (margaretspicy.com)
  • Africa's linguistic diversity is a treasure trove that reflects the continent's cultural richness and resilience. (margaretspicy.com)
  • In any case, the fact that there are 140 language families in the Americas, 80 in Papua New Guinea vs. some 20 in Africa suggests that if there's a pattern of variation in phonological inventories that has a phylogenetic significance it should show a gradient of decreasing diversity into Africa and not out of Africa. (blogspot.com)
  • Benin is a particularly interesting country on account of its linguistic and cultural diversity. (who.int)
  • A blog about the wonderful diversity of the world's languages, updated biweekly by the members of Lund Language Diversity Forum. (lu.se)
  • Before kicking off another semester of blogging about language diversity, we thought it might finally be time to introduce ourselves properly. (lu.se)
  • Fact About the World's Languages: An Encyclopedia of the World's Major Languages, Past and Present , 207-213. (upenn.edu)
  • The Akan language belongs to the Kwa group of the Niger Congo phylum. (unizin.org)
  • Ethiopian, S. B. Chernetsov), and secondly at learning live African languages (K. I. Pozdnyakov), in particular at compiling dictionaries as sources for studying the culture of peoples of Africa. (kunstkamera.ru)
  • Despite the cultural differences among Ghana's various peoples, linguists have placed Ghanaian languages in one or the other of only two major linguistic sub-families of the Niger-Congo language family, one of the large language groups in Africa. (modernghana.com)
  • Apart from marginalization, the partition of Africa, with the resulting division of populations speaking the same language, has had a number of consequences. (acalan.org)
  • Besides, since there is a high degree of illiteracy in Africa, there is no alternative to the use of African languages for literacy and for ensuring mass participation in development. (acalan.org)
  • Africa has witnessed several attempts to empower African languages, particularly through the activities of UNESCO and the OAU. (acalan.org)
  • These have mainly been carried out through non-binding resolutions made at international conferences (for example, the O.A.U. Language Plan of Africa 1986, and the Harare Declaration 1997) and the establishment of institutions, devoted to specific subjects. (acalan.org)
  • As part of its effort to empower African languages, UNESCO also sponsored the translation of its composite History of Africa into Swahili, Hausa and Yoruba. (acalan.org)
  • Africa is a linguistic mosaic, boasting a remarkable array of languages. (margaretspicy.com)
  • The Niger-Congo language family is the largest in Africa, encompassing around 1,500 languages. (margaretspicy.com)
  • As Africa continues to evolve and grow, preserving and celebrating this linguistic heritage is essential to nurturing a sense of identity, unity, and cultural pride among its people. (margaretspicy.com)
  • WESTERMANN D. et BRYAN M. A., Languages of West Africa , Oxford University Press, 1952. (ankhonline.com)
  • LUKAS J., The Linguistic Situation in the Lake Tchad Area , in Africa (Londres), juillet 1936. (ankhonline.com)
  • Whilst you're in all probability aware of Spanish-speaking nations in Central and South America, do you know that there's a rustic in Africa whose official language is Spanish? (novel89.com)
  • It's the one nation in Africa with Spanish because the official language. (novel89.com)
  • Previously a Spanish colony, the nation of Equatorial Guinea is the one nation in Africa to have Spanish because the official language. (novel89.com)
  • If individual African languages carry more phonemes than languages outside of Africa, this by itself means just as much for phylogeny as the fact that there are more languages classified as Niger-Congo than as any other language family. (blogspot.com)
  • We have two countries in Af-Ra-Ka (Africa) named "NIGER" and "NIGER-IA" but I don't see one damn (so-called) Black person telling the "NIGER-IAN" or the "NIGERIAN" please change your name because it is offensive to us. (dralimelbey.com)
  • Allegedly, when the Europeans invaded Af-Ra-Ka (Africa) they found some of our descendants on the banks of the NIGER River. (dralimelbey.com)
  • The Problems in the Classification of the African Languages. (ankhonline.com)
  • This book will be of interest to scholars investigating parts-of-speech systems, finiteness, systems of nominal and verbal classification, and linguistic categorization. (mipt.ru)
  • Each language family contains numerous languages and dialects, further enriching Africa's linguistic landscape. (margaretspicy.com)
  • Unlike some other states in Nigeria that speak one major language with various dialects, in Cross River, a very small subset of the people can choose to speak a language unique to them. (buzznigeria.com)
  • There are 37 languages with a network of dialects and language clusters. (buzznigeria.com)
  • According to the National Population Commission, as of 2006, there were about 37 languages in Cross River all belonging to a network of dialects and language clusters. (buzznigeria.com)
  • There are several dialects of the Igbo languages, about 30. (satvistomo.net)
  • Examples of such institutions are the now defunct OAU Bureau of Languages at Kampala, Uganda, the Centre of Linguistic and Historical Studies through Oral Tradition (CELHTO) at Niamey, Niger, and the Regional Centre of Documentation on Oral Traditions and African Languages (CERDOTOLA) in Yaoundé, Cameroon. (acalan.org)
  • John T. Koch, of the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, has a very interesting piece in History Ireland about a language I'd never heard of, Tartessian. (languagehat.com)
  • This volume constitutes a contribution to the cross-linguistic study of ditransitive constructions, arguably the most prominent construction in the domain of trivalent verbs. (reichert-verlag.de)
  • Taken together, these cross-linguistic differences in the perception of identical stimuli provide direct evidence for language-specific development of prosodic boundary perception. (uni-potsdam.de)
  • And also presenting aspects of the morphosyntax that are related to the pronominal system: (i) the word classes noun and verb, (ii) the structure of the noun phrase focusing on the genitive constructions, and (iii) some aspects of the order in that language. (usp.br)
  • Considering the free pronouns, I propose that Anaang has different forms for the object and subject positions, and that the pronouns that take the subject position constitute the modifier of the genitive constructions in the language. (usp.br)
  • My aim in this paper is to take a step back and examine the properties of multiverb sequences in the languages on the West African coast, mainly "Old" Kwa languages, especially Akan, Ewe, Likpe, Fon and Yoruba, in which "uncontroversial" cases of serial verb constructions have been found and to propose ways and means of distinguishing between the various multi-verb constructions. (upenn.edu)
  • The contributions in this volume address a variety of languages, provide rich new data on the distribution of ditransitive constructions in lesser-researched languages, and substantiate the findings with corpus data. (reichert-verlag.de)
  • Westernmost language of the Gbe language subgroup. (upenn.edu)
  • Ethnologue code: 58-16: The Northern Berber languages form a dialect continuum across the Maghreb that constitute a branch of the Berber language subgroup of the Afroasiatic family. (resurgenceofthewest.com)
  • The Fang speak languages of the Bantu subgroup of the Niger-Congo language family. (en-academic.com)
  • The Ogonis are a people in the Rivers South East senatorial district of Rivers State, in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ìgè, Ìguè) respectively, while the sound /w/ is written as 'w' and 'ou' in Hausa in Nigeria and Niger (e.g. (acalan.org)
  • The state occupies an area of 20,156 km² and is home to one of the most diversified tribes and languages in Nigeria. (buzznigeria.com)
  • Although a few of these languages, like Lokaa, Yala, and Mbembe, have been raised in status, there are still very few people who speak native Cross Riverian languages when compared with other tribes in Nigeria. (buzznigeria.com)
  • Sign Languages Of Nigeria. (satvistomo.net)
  • 8] Igbo is recognized as a major language in Nigeria, a minority in Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon. (satvistomo.net)
  • The Igbo language (Asụsụ Igbo) is the native language to the Igbo people living in Igboland in southeastern Nigeria. (satvistomo.net)
  • In Cuba, the Igbo language (along with the Efik language) continues to be used, albeit in a creolized form, in ceremonies of the Abakuá society, equivalent or derived from the Ekpe society in modern Nigeria. (satvistomo.net)
  • Igbo (Ibo), people living chiefly in southeastern Nigeria who speak Igbo, a language of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. (satvistomo.net)
  • Igbo is the principal native language of the Igbo people, an ethnic group of southeastern Nigeria. (satvistomo.net)
  • The number of languages currently estimated and catalogued in Nigeria is 521. (commisceo-global.com)
  • The official language of Nigeria, English, was chosen to facilitate the cultural and linguistic unity of the country post-colonization by the British. (commisceo-global.com)
  • Main interests: diachronic and synchronic grammar of Iranian languages, description and documentation of minority languages. (reichert-verlag.de)
  • Our PhD candidates generally undertake extensive fieldwork on a previously undescribed (or scarcely described) language and write a comprehensive grammar of it for their dissertation. (linguistlist.org)
  • I am currently working on completing a reference grammar of the Austro-Asiatic language Kammu. (lu.se)
  • I am interested in how languages structure or categorize their meaning, and also in how they develop their grammar. (lu.se)
  • Decreasing numbers (15,000 for Gorwaa in 2017, 650 for Hadza in 2013, and 32,000 for Isanzu in 1987), environmental change, and the loss of linguistic domains to Swahili all contribute to the endangerment status of these three languages. (elararchive.org)
  • Ancestry data support the grouping of Kwadi-Khoe, Kx'a, and Tuu languages, support the exclusion of Omotic languages from the Afroasiatic language family, and do not support the proposed Dené-Yeniseian language family as a genetically valid grouping. (nature.com)
  • Berber is a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. (resurgenceofthewest.com)
  • while some linguists suggested placing Celtic, Welsh, and other Western European languages with Afroasiatic, rather than with IE. (resurgenceofthewest.com)
  • The dialect is closely influenced by Bantu languages of the area. (novel89.com)
  • Subsets of features of Northern Songhay languages are compared with those of several stable mixed languages and mixed-lexicon creoles, and in accounting for the origin of these languages the kind of language mixing found in Northern Songhay languages is compared with that found in the (Algonquian) Montagnais dialect of Betsiamites, Quebec. (genderi.org)
  • Mali and Niger recognise a Tuareg Berber Latin alphabet customised to the Tuareg phonological system. (pauldingsigns.com)
  • In most discussions of the status of African languages today, especially among language experts, one expression that constantly turns up is the need for revalorization of our indigenous languages. (acalan.org)
  • Indigenous languages play a crucial role in preserving Africa's cultural heritage and fostering a sense of identity. (margaretspicy.com)
  • Indigenous languages are vessels of cultural knowledge and identity, preserving Africa's diverse heritage. (margaretspicy.com)
  • 12] Since modern Berber languages are relatively homogeneous, the date of the Proto-Berber language from which the modern group is derived was probably comparatively recent, comparable to the age of the Germanic or Romance subfamilies. (resurgenceofthewest.com)
  • One of Bounfour's colleagues, Salem Chaker, has written that "the Berber language presents an inarguable scientific interest. (resurgenceofthewest.com)
  • Kabyle is a Berber language. (resurgenceofthewest.com)
  • Geographic and demographic situation The Berber language belongs to the Hamito-Semitic group. (resurgenceofthewest.com)
  • While the root and pattern system is operative in the Berber family, it is less regularized there than in the Semitic languages. (resurgenceofthewest.com)
  • Berber Tamazight / Tamaziɣt / ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ Ethnicity: Berber people (Imazighen) Geographic distribution This list contains individual languages. (resurgenceofthewest.com)
  • After some progress, such as the recognition of Tamazight as the country's second official language in 2016, the Berber were the target of much repression in the crackdown on anti-government protests. (resurgenceofthewest.com)
  • The Western Berber languages are a branch of the Berber languages. (resurgenceofthewest.com)
  • Tamahaq is a Northern Berber language in southern Algeria, western Libya and northern Niger. (pauldingsigns.com)
  • Inspired by neo-Punic, an African form of the Phoenician alphabet, Tifinagh is related to scripts that were employed for writing ancient Berber languages. (pauldingsigns.com)
  • The Tifinagh alphabet is sometimes used for the Berber languages of Morocco and Algeria since the end of the 20 th century, to make a difference with the Arabic or Latin alphabets. (pauldingsigns.com)
  • also written Tifinaɣ in the Berber Latin alphabet, ⵜⵉⴼⵉⵏⴰⵖ in Neo-Tifinagh, and تيفيناغ in the Berber Arabic alphabet) is a series of abjad and alphabetic scripts used to write Berber languages. (pauldingsigns.com)
  • The study shows that Tagdal and the other Northern Songhay languages could be construed as mixed languages, although the proportion of Berber and Songhay elements varieties somewhat between these languages, and also indicates that the definition of 'mixed language' is labile because different mixed languages combine their components in different ways, so that different kinds of mixed languages need to be recognized. (genderi.org)
  • The feature that most distinguishes Northern Songhay languages from their mainstream Songhay cousins is their combining both Songhay and Berber features, with the nomadic varieties, Tagdal and Tadaksahak, having, relatively-speaking, more Berber features than either Tasawaq 7 or even Kwarandzyey/Korandje in Algeria. (genderi.org)
  • Despite having a sizeable presence throughout the state, Asian immigrants grapple with critical language access challenges such as a shortage of interpreters for Asian languages and a lack of culturally responsive services. (usc.edu)
  • For a state as culturally rich as Cross River, it isn't surprising to learn that there are many subsets of language and tribes that exist within the major and most popularly known ones. (buzznigeria.com)
  • This work, inserted in a typological approach, aims at the description and the analysis of the free personal pronouns in the Anaang language. (usp.br)
  • Even though most ethnic groups prefer to communicate in their own languages, English, being the official language, is widely used for education, business transactions and for official purposes. (commisceo-global.com)
  • The volume also features studies dealing with a number of other languages and language families, including modern Romance varieties and their ancestor Latin, Ancient Greek, Tocharian, as well as non-Indo-European languages (such as Mansi and Niger-Congo). (reichert-verlag.de)
  • Most of the studies take a descriptive and/or comparative perspective, as appropriate when dealing with endangered languages, but some contributions make use of other approaches and methodologies, ranging from psycholinguistic-experimental and corpus linguistic techniques to typological and theoretical analyses. (reichert-verlag.de)
  • We place emphasis on work that has a sound empirical basis but also shows a firm theoretical orientation (in terms of general typological theory, or what has recently come to be called basic linguistic theory). (linguistlist.org)
  • Baoulé is written with a version of the Latin alphabet devised by l'Institut de linguistique appliqué ivoirien (The Ivorian Applied Linguistic Institute) in 1979. (omniglot.com)
  • 5 The followig diagram, based on Nicolai (1979), shows the relationship of the languages from a genetic (or rather genealogical) standpoint. (genderi.org)
  • The goal of this paper is, first, to demonstrate that Nicolai's (1979) dichotomy of nomadic versus sedentary Northern Songhay languages bears out robustly both from a socio-cultural/historical, 9 as well as from a grammatical, standpoint, though the Songhay material in these languages bespeaks a sedentary lifestyle (Souag 2012). (genderi.org)
  • This paper explores the mathematical conceptualization and arithmetical operations that are expressed by the linguistic forms of the numeral systems of 'A`be`sa`be`si' (Known in literature as Akpes (etymology ibe), E`kiro`mi` lect in particular) a member of the Edoid language family of Niger Congo language. (ijbssnet.com)
  • Baoulé is a member of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo language family. (omniglot.com)
  • Kpelle ( Kpɛlɛwoo ) is a Mande language belonging to the Niger-Congo family. (languagesandnumbers.com)
  • I have worked mostly on a language belonging to the Austronesian family (Northern Alta, see picture above), and previously worked on a Niger-Congo language (Diola). (lu.se)
  • The Caddoan languages once had a broad geographic distribution, but many are now extinct. (resurgenceofthewest.com)
  • Yet another Northern Songhay language, Emghedeshie, 3 was at one time the language of wider communication in the city of Agadez, in modern-day Niger, but has been extinct since the early twentieth century (Barth 1851, Hamani 1989: 208). (genderi.org)
  • This number includes 510 living languages, 2 second languages without native speakers and 9 extinct languages. (commisceo-global.com)
  • Akan has unique linguistic features such as vowel harmony, tonal language, and nasalization. (unizin.org)
  • When taking this into account, nearly 80 percent of Ghanaians (of 54 million people) speak Akan as a first or a second language. (unizin.org)
  • MOSOP's mandated use of non-violent methods to promote democratic principles assist Ogoni people pursue rights of self-determination in environmental issues in the Niger Delta, cultural rights and practices for Ogoni people. (wikipedia.org)
  • IN 1960, roughly 100 linguistic and cultural groups were recorded in Ghana. (modernghana.com)
  • The sub-divisions of each group share a common cultural heritage, history, language, and origin. (modernghana.com)
  • Efforts are being made to preserve and promote these languages through education, cultural initiatives, and awareness campaigns. (margaretspicy.com)
  • Gorwaa: an archive of language and cultural material from the Gorwaa people of Babati (Manyara Region, Tanzania). (elararchive.org)
  • In Cross River State, there are over 30 tribes, each with its unique cultural values, traditions, and language. (buzznigeria.com)
  • We compiled publicly available genome-wide genotype data on 5,966 individuals from 282 global samples, representing 30 primary language families. (nature.com)
  • We estimated correlation coefficients ranging from 0.522 to 0.962 between ancestries and language families or branches. (nature.com)
  • We hypothesize that focusing on language families or branches, rather than languages, will mitigate problems arising from areal features and will provide a similar deeper level of resolution. (nature.com)
  • These abundant genomic data provide an exciting opportunity to test linguistic hypotheses involving multiple language families. (nature.com)
  • According to oral tradition, the Ogoni people migrated from ancient Ghana down to the Atlantic coast eventually making their way over to the eastern Niger Delta and getting absorbed into the already existing Igbo and Ijaw population. (wikipedia.org)
  • The language has very little inflectional morphology but much derivational and extensional morphology. (satvistomo.net)
  • My research topic is affixation in the languages of the Caucasus and my main fields of interest are historical linguistics, morphology, language contact and lexicology (particularly food terms). (lu.se)
  • Fieldwork methodology should be centred on the collection, transcription and analysis of texts, together with participant observation, and at a later stage judicious grammatical elicitation in the language under description (not through the lingua franca of the country). (linguistlist.org)
  • Using the largest multi-locus data set known to date, we investigated genetic differentiation of early modern humans, human admixture and migration events, and relationships among ancestries and language groups. (nature.com)
  • Each of these four geographical areas has languages that are peculiar to them. (buzznigeria.com)
  • The French language became an international language in the Middle Ages , when the power of the Kingdom of France made it the second international language , alongside Latin . (wikipedia.org)
  • however, the Arabic alphabet is commonly used in some areas (and has been since medieval times), while the Latin alphabet is official in Mali and Niger. (pauldingsigns.com)
  • The Amazigh language was granted the status of a national language in 2002 and was upgraded to an official language in 2016. (resurgenceofthewest.com)
  • 34] See List of Jamaican Patois words of African origin#Igbo language for more examples. (satvistomo.net)
  • Igbo is an agglutinating language that exhibits very little fusion. (satvistomo.net)
  • A language profile for Igbo. (satvistomo.net)
  • In the 1850s, German philologist Karl Richard Lepsius published the Standard Alphabet, which was universal to all languages of the world, and became the first Igbo orthography. (satvistomo.net)
  • All of them, no matter how many, go back to proto-Niger-Congo, which is likely of Neolithic origin, which brought about a demographic outburst and population expansion with corresponding proliferation of individual, closely related languages. (blogspot.com)
  • Multilingualism fosters a sense of unity and inclusivity, allowing people from different linguistic backgrounds to communicate and collaborate effectively. (margaretspicy.com)
  • These tribes share themselves in Local Government Areas complete with their own culture, language, and traditions. (buzznigeria.com)
  • Like several other ancient linguistic traditions, Sanskrit also started as an oral language. (pauldingsigns.com)
  • Ogoni is known for its 5 languages, which include the popular Khana language. (buzznigeria.com)
  • They share common oil-related environmental problems with the Ijaw people of the Niger Delta. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1956, four years before Nigerian Independence, Royal Dutch/Shell, in collaboration with the British government, found a commercially viable oil field on the Niger Delta and began oil production in 1958. (wikipedia.org)
  • Arabic and English are the official working languages of the country. (who.int)
  • Whereas Arabic is the official language of the structure, Spanish is usually most popular for radio and TV broadcasts. (novel89.com)
  • These materials, supplemented in all three languages with structured elicitation, will form the basis of grammatical analysis comparing specific features present in these languages with the characteristic areal features for the Tanzanian Rift Valley. (elararchive.org)
  • This paper discusses the origins of linguistic elements in three Northern Songhay languages of Niger and Mali: Tadaksahak, Tagdal and Tasawaq. (genderi.org)
  • Ilaria Micheli , PhD in African Studies (2005), expert in linguistic anthropology, member of the Department of Juridical Sciences and Languages of the University of Triest. (units.it)
  • Since 2010 sh's also working on problems of language-cognition-identity among the African immigrants in Italy. (units.it)
  • She teaches African Languages and Cultures at the University of Venice "Cà Foscari" and African Identities in Transition at the University of Trieste. (units.it)
  • The implication of this is that African languages previously had a role and vitality, which had been eroded as a result of the impact of colonialism. (acalan.org)
  • Prior to the colonial experience, African languages were the sole media of socialization within the language community, and communication within and outside the group. (acalan.org)
  • Imported European languages, which served as the language of colonial administration, have overshadowed African languages, and become the preferred mode of communication in most domains. (acalan.org)
  • The most pervasive effect of the dominant status of imported languages is the marginalization of African languages and the negative attitude that has developed in connection with their use in certain domains. (acalan.org)
  • Those who are literate only in an African language are made to feel inferior to those who are proficient in the dominant imported official languages. (acalan.org)
  • For example, while one African language is used in primary education in one territory, the same language is completely ignored in another. (acalan.org)
  • Third, the fact that the same African language is subjected to contact with two different official languages has resulted in divergent influences, in orthography, loanwords and code-mixing. (acalan.org)
  • Given the current situation of African languages, it is clear that there is need to reposition, revalorize and empower them so that they can be used in a wider range of domains. (acalan.org)
  • The rest of this address will be devoted to efforts that have been made in the past to promote African languages, the role of the ACALAN as a catalyst in revolutionizing current approaches, the strategies to be adopted, and the ultimate goals and objectives. (acalan.org)
  • WEB-BALL is a version of J. P. Maho's EBALL (Electronic Bibliography for African Languages and Linguistics), hosted by LLACAN (Langage, Langues, et Cultures d'Afrique Noire). (upenn.edu)
  • Capo, Hounkpati B.C. (1991) A Comparative Phonology of Gbe , Publications in African Languages and Linguistics, 14. (upenn.edu)
  • Thus African Languages may start with the same basic elements but combine them in intricate and create ways and patterns to produce unique and effective numeral systems cf. (ijbssnet.com)
  • A Phonetic Study of West African Languages. (ankhonline.com)
  • WESTERMANN D. et WARD I.C., Pratical Phonetics for Students of African Languages , Oxford University Press, 5e dit. (ankhonline.com)
  • [7] For African countries where French is the main language of education, the number of French speakers is derived from the average number of schooling years. (wikipedia.org)
  • hence, the name origin of the two Af-Ra-Kan [African] countries NGU for NIGER and NGA for NIGER-IA. (dralimelbey.com)
  • The new orthography, created by the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures (IIALC), had 36 letters and disposed of diacritic marks. (satvistomo.net)
  • One is again baffled to notice that secondary school students perform badly in West African School Certificate in English language Examination. (codemint.net)
  • We understand the technical requirements necessary to produce perfect foreign language and English voice overs. (golocalise.com)
  • Data Highlight #1: 90% of Asian American immigrants in California spoke a language other than English at home in 2019. (usc.edu)
  • In 2019, 75% of all Asian American Californians spoke a language other than English at home, as compared to 45% of all Californians. (usc.edu)
  • Moreover, 90% of Asian American immigrants spoke a language other than English at home (see Figure 1 below). (usc.edu)
  • Therefore, the findings on variability in sentence processing in English still need to be replicated in a different language. (uni-potsdam.de)
  • Dennis Craig was passionate about the teaching of language and, in particular, English language to what he termed towards the end of his career speakers of creole-influenced vernaculars. (uwipress.com)
  • The consonants are similar to the use as in the English language, though there are separate combinations of consonants, i.e. (satvistomo.net)
  • This study sought to identify factors that affect effective teaching and learning of the English language in the secondary schools in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State. (codemint.net)
  • One hundred (100) English language students were equally used for the study. (codemint.net)
  • The result of the study showed that large class-size, unavailability of qualified teachers, lack of students' interest and no assignments to students were among the factors identified by the researcher will influence the performance of students in English language in the secondary schools. (codemint.net)
  • 1. Does the school have enough qualified English language teachers. (codemint.net)
  • 1. Influence of mother tongue interference on the students' mastery of English language. (codemint.net)
  • 2. Pidgin English speaking in the school premises pose a problem on students' performance in English language. (codemint.net)
  • There are also lack of qualified English language teachers, well-equipped libraries and unavailability of instructional materials. (codemint.net)
  • 2. The language planners should work with the government to equip secondary schools with well equipped libraries, instructional materials, language laboratory and textbooks to enhance the study of English language. (codemint.net)
  • 4. A media should be used to enlighten parents on the need to provide conducive home environment for their children and encourage them to develop interest in English language and other subjects. (codemint.net)
  • English language occupies a prominent place in the Nigerian school curriculum. (codemint.net)
  • The English language is one of the legacies to bequeathed Nigerians by the British which will be difficult to do away with. (codemint.net)
  • In social occasions, English language is used for conversation and interpersonal relationship. (codemint.net)
  • It is our official language and therefore imperative that every Nigerian should be able to read, write and communicate in good simple English. (codemint.net)
  • In view of this, teaching and the use of English language should be given prominent attention in secondary schools as the majority of Nigerian parents are illiterates and cannot provide a conducive home environment for language acquisition nor afford good schools for their children's education Azikiwe (1985). (codemint.net)
  • One feature which I really miss in Swedish (and English, and presumably all European languages) is wh-verbs, i.e. a verb meaning 'to what? (lu.se)
  • Since 2001 she works on the language and culture of the Kulango (Gur - Niger-Congo) of Côte d'Ivoire. (units.it)
  • Otherwise, my research interests deal primarily with the Formosan langauges (Austronesian languages of Taiwan), and more generally, I am interested in what keeps the clause together: word order, case relations, agreement etc. (lu.se)
  • It is so much more elegant in the Formosan languages of Taiwan, as well as in many other Austronesian languages, where there is a dedicated verb which means 'to what? (lu.se)
  • According to the authors of a 2017 book on the world distribution of the French language, a credible estimate of the number of "francophones réels" (real francophones), that is, individuals who speak French on a daily basis either as their mother tongue or as a second language, would be around 130 million. (wikipedia.org)
  • We asked our team members to tell us about an attested linguistic property that they wish their mother tongue had. (lu.se)
  • And what better way to do that than by our favourite language features? (lu.se)
  • NS languages seem to belong to the category of Core-Periphery languages with respect to the origins of more versus less basic morphemes. (genderi.org)
  • With over 30 tribes and about 70 languages, Cross River State certainly lives up to its reputation as a melting pot of cultures. (buzznigeria.com)
  • In the two meetings organized in Naples, April 14th 2015 and Turin, October 8-9th 2015 in the framework of the ATrA project, the issue has been discussed by archaeologists, linguists, philologists and anthropologists specifically adopting the perspective of observing and discussing identity through a reflection on its material manifestations in transitional contexts (be it in terms of language, of economical exchanges or of traditional handicraft). (units.it)
  • Bassa is a Northwest Bantu language and belongs to the Basaa group , which is classified as the Guthrie Zone A40. (zxc.wiki)
  • This publication brings together the ideas, experiences of the majority of scholars in linguistics who have benefitted from the vast contribution of Professor Dennis Craig to language and language education in creole/vernacular contexts. (uwipress.com)