1st Edition

A Thesaurus of African Languages A Classified and Annotated Inventory of the Spoken Languages of Africa With an Appendix on Their Written Representation

Edited By Michael Mann, David Dalby Copyright 1987
338 Pages
by Routledge

338 Pages
by Routledge

338 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1987, this thesaurus is concerned with the spoken languages of Africa. Languages are grouped into a relatively large number of sets and subsets within which the relationship of languages to one another is locally apparent and uncontroversial. The volume presents the languages in classified order with notes on each language, their variant names and immediate classification,... Read more

1. Introduction 2. Inventory of African Languages 3. The Languages of African States 4. Writing African Languages 5. Documentation 6. Index

Biography

Michael Mann, David Dalby