African Language Resources on the Internet

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200 Word Project: isiXhosa, isiZulu, Amharic, Wolof, Hausa, Kiswahili (African Studies Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts)
"...a visual and audio database of words with pictures and video clips that allow students to hear native speakers pronounce each word."
ACALAN: Académie Africaine des Langues = African Academy of Languages (Bamako, Mali)
- ACALAN News and Events (Current)
- ACALAN Collection of Reports and Resolutions, 2002-2010. African Union Common Repository (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
African Ajami Library (Boston University Libraries, Boston, Massachusetts)
"...a collaborative initiative between Boston University and the West African Research Center (WARC) in part funded by the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme...The project currently includes: Mandinka Ajami and Arabic Manuscripts of Casamance Senegal ; Wolofal Manuscripts, Senegal ; Dagbanli Ajami and Arabic Manuscripts of Northern Ghana ; Fuuta Jalon Pular Ajami Manuscripts ; Hausa Manuscripts ; and, Philippe Beaujard Sorabe (Malagasy) Ajami Collection."

--See also: Africa at London School of Economics---"The Social and Commerical Life of African Ajami," October 1, 2019.
AfLaT -- African Language Technology (2018) (Antwerp, Belgium; Cape Town, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya)
"...the growing availability of digital corpora, dictionaries and tools for many (formerly) resource-scarce African languages...The AfLaT website aims to catalogue these resources for the benefit of researchers interested in African language technology. ...AfLaT.org contains a steadily growing collection of bibliographic resources, web links and tools, provided by AfLaT members."
AFLI--African Languages Initiative 2021--Summer Intensive Courses, June--July 2021, Center for African Studies, University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida)
AFRILEX: African Association for Lexicography (via University of Pretoria, South Africa)
- The website features news about research, conferences, and related links.
- AFRILEX 2024: 28th International Conference of the African Association for Lexicography, July 1-4, 2024, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
- Programs from past conferences, 1995-2018
ALASA--African Language Assocation of Southern Africa (Pretoria, South Africa)
"...established in 1979 as a non-discriminatory, non-profit-making association at a conference hosted by the Department of African Languages of the University of South Africa."
--23rd Biennial Conference of the African Languages Association of Southern Africa, September 21-24, 2022, Stellenbosch, South Africa---Book of Abstracts
African Language Materials Archive (ALMA): A joint project of the West African Research Association and Title VI National Resource Centers for African Studies. (via Matrix, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
- "...a multi-partner project focusing on the promotion and documentation of literature and literacy in the languages of Africa. It further serves to assist African language authors and publishers in publicizing and distributing their work."
- See also: ALMA e-books--original site of the ALMA collection, produced by the West African Research Center (Dakar, Senegal), Columbia University, CAORC--Council of American Overseas Research Centers, and the Digital Library for International Research at The Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, Illinois; with support from the U.S. Department of Education and UNESCO. The e-books presented here are in major languages of West Africa: Bamanankan, Jula, Fula, Fulfulde, Kriolu, Mandinka, Mooré, Pulaar, and Wolof.
African Language Teachers' Association (ALTA) (via Columbia University, New York)
General information on the organization, its annual conferences, and its other activities. See also, National African Language Resource Center below.

--See especially: ALTA 2023 Conference--Online: "African Languages and Changing Social Realities", Washington, DC, April 14-15, 2023. Co-sponsored by Columbia University, Boston University, Harvard University, Howard University, Indiana University...[et al.].
AfricanLanguages.Com (David Joffe, Pretoria, South Africa)
- This website contains information about African Languages, online dictionaries and lexicons, and other African Language related resources. Currently mostly only the South African languages are covered---especially Sesotho, Setswana, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Venda, Siswati, and Afrikaans, as well as Kiswahili and Cilubà in Eastern and Central Africa.
- Kiswahili
- Sheng-English Lexicon
  -- Sheng is a slang dialect of Kiswahili spoken in Kenya, especially in and around Nairobi.
- Cilubà
  -- Cilubà is spoken mostly in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
African languages in a digital age: challenges and opportunities for indigenous language computing. (2010) By Don Osborn. -- Ottawa, Canada: International Development Research Centre, 2010. --via IDRC Digital Library ; 167 pages in PDF format
African Languages Technology Initiative--ALT-I (2018) (Ibadan, Nigeria)
- "African Languages Technology Initiative (Alt-I) was set up to facilitate development of the necessary resources that will enable the engagement of information communication technologies (ICT) in African Languages. ...to appropriate various aspects of human language technology (HLT) such as speech synthesis, speech recognition, natural language understanding, machine translation and many others..."
- Projects--corpus development, Yoruba keyboard, speech synthesis, etc.
African Storybook (Saide, Braamfontein, South Africa)
Search under "Read" by language. Since 2013, a South African-based NGO publishes and promotes the dissemination of children's story books in African languages. As of early 2018, there are 4966 e-books in this open access collection.
Amharic on the Internet
- Abyssinica Dictionary--Comprehensive Amharic Dictionary and Reference (EthioCloud.com, Kekros Systems, LLC, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  The site features online and downloadable applications for translation between Amharic and Ge'ez, English, French, Italian, and German, as well as an Amharic proverbs dictionary.
- African Language.Com's Amharic Language Tutorial Programs (Anaheim, California)
  Warning: this is a commercial site.
  Tutorial materials for Tigrinya, Oromo, and Somali are also available.
- Ethiopic.Com (Ethiopian Computers & Software, Littleton, Colorado; in association with Fettan Graphics Corp., Washington, DC)
  The web site features downloadable Ge'ez fonts and other products, plus extensive links to articles and related information on the Web about the Amharic language and Ethiopia.
- Ethiopic Script for Amharic, Ge'ez, Tigrinya (Omniglot, USA) ...See below
- Google Books -- Open Access Titles, 1841 to present
  - Obolensky, Serge, Debebow Zelelie, Mulugeta Andualem. Amharic Basic Course, Volume 1. Units 1-50. (1964) -- Washington, DC: Foreign Service Institute, 1964. 1054 pages.
    --See also: Volume 2. Units 51-60 ; Reader ; Glossary.
  - All open access Google eBooks on Amharic language and Amhara people
- Tsehai Loves Learning (Abshiro Group, USA; in association with Whiz Kids Workshop, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  A website featuring information about educational videos (DVD format), TV programs in Amharic from Ethiopia, and public events in the USA for teaching Amharic to (Ethiopian) children.
"Arabic Script Manuscripts in Africa," 12-16 September 2021, Remotely over Zoom, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt (Co-sponsored by The Islamic Manuscripts Association, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation)
This site --available in Arabic, English, and French-- includes the full programme -and- video recordings, with English interpretation, of all the presentations!
ASK-DL: Africa's Sources of Knowledge Digital Library (African Language Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
"[With funding from the US Department of Education TICFIA program since 2009, this pilot project will provide online access to]...information contained in rare handwritten and out-of-print African language documents of non-latinate scripts ; an endeavor to digitize, catalog and index collected documents in an accessible online library." The site includes sample texts in the following languages: Wolof, Bamana, Amharic, Tigrinya, Tamasheq, and Swahili.
Association of Contemporary African Linguistics (USA)
"The Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) was first convened in 1970 and has since been held every year at various sites throughout North America. The affiliated Association of Contemporary African Linguistics...was founded in 2013."

--54th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 54), June 12-14, 2023, University of Connecticut, Storrs

--53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 53) Online, April 7-9, 2022. (University of California, San Diego)
--See also: ACAL 48: African linguistics across the disciplines: Selected papers from the 48th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (2019)
--ACAL 46: Diversity in African languages: Selected papers from the 6th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (2016)
--ACAL 45: African linguistics on the prairie: Selected papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (2018)
--Plus: Cascadilla Proceedings Project--Annual Conference on African Linguistics below
Bambara on the Internet
- Bamadaba : Dictionnaire orthographique bambara, avec un index français-bambara. 2011–2022. (Corpus Bambara de Référence, Paris, France)
- Bamanan: Langue et Culture Bambara Mɔgɔya ye juru ye! (Charles Bailleul, Vittorio Bonfanti et allii, Centre d'Etude de Langue (CEL), Falajè, Mali)
- Bambara: Léxique bambara-français-anglais (Richard Nci Diarra, Koutala, Mali)
- Conte-Moi la Francophonie: Contes du Mali pour enfants (Paris, France)
  --Veuillez voir surtout les fichiers sonores en bambara et les textes en français.
- Corpus Bambara de Référence (LLACAN, Paris, France ; AMALAN, Bamako, Mali; St. Petersburg University, Russia)
  "Le Corpus Bambara de Référence fait partie d'un macro-projet Corpora Mandeica qui regroupe des corpus de plusieurs langues mandé, c’est un corpus massif de textes annotés en langue bambara...Le Corpus se compose des textes des genres différents, publiés (périodiques, belles lettres, littérature orale, manuels, guides pratiques, littérature de l’alphabétisation fonctionnelle, publications religieuses…) ou non-publiés (lettres des lecteurs des journaux; textes enregistrés et transcrits par les chercheurs…) dont les auteurs proviennent des zones dialectales différentes."
  --Veuillez voir surtout: Bambarabiblio -- Bibliothèque électronique bambara
- Hadamaden josiraw dantigekan = Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948-- Geneva, Switzerland: United Nations Information Centre ; United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland, 1998.
  --Veuillez voir aussi: "Hadamaden josiraw dantigɛli diɲɛ fan tan ni naani ye." --Traduction, 2023, via Mali Pense
- Indiana University, Center for Language Technology and Instructional Enrichment: Bamana Languages On-Line. (Bloomington, Indiana)
  Audio files in Bambara and English which accompany the grammar, An Ka Bamanankan Kan Kalan, by Charles Bird et al. (1976-77), published by Indiana University Press. Note: there are no online texts.
- Mali pense. (Bamako, Mali; Paris, France)
  --"Manden donsolu kaikan = Le Serment des chasseurs du Mandé, c1222. (décembre 2023)
- United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: Hadamaden josiraw dantigɛkan Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948(Geneva, Switzerland)
Cataloging Africana (Dr. Charles Riley, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut)
A blog which focuses on cataloging issues surrounding African languages, published since 2011 by Charles Riley, Librarian for African Studies at Yale University.
CBOLD: Comparative Bantu Online Dictionary (2002) (Department of Linguistics and the Institute of Cognitive Studies, University of California, Berkeley ; via L'Institut des Sciences de l'Homme, Lyon, France)
- The site offers descriptions of the project and its components, with tools for linguistic analysis, a selection of dictionaries and word lists, and related links. "The CBOLD project was started in 1994 by Larry Hyman and John Lowe to produce in Berkeley a lexicographic database to support and enhance the theoretical, descriptive, and historical linguistic study of the languages in the important Bantu family."
Bemba Online Project: A Digital Bemba Language Archive (Debra Spitulnik, David Charnon, and Mubanga E. Kashoki, Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia)

[Since 2014] This site offers a bibliography of resources, a linguistic profile, and a selection of audio files for this major language and cultural group of Zambia.
Beyond Niamey: African languages and the "information society" (Dr. Don Osborn, USA)
"...a blog of Don Osborn, author of African Languages in a Digital Age. (2010), whose 16 years living and working in Africa and Asia include 11 in West Africa (2000-04 in Niger) and 1 in East Africa."
Bisharat! A language, technology, and development initiative (See below)
Buganda Home Page Focus on Language (Mukasa E. Ssemakula et al., Wayne State University, Ohio)
"Empandika y'Oluganda"--a primer in speaking and writing Luganda ; a Luganda grammar ; and related links.
Bukedde. (Online) -- Kampala, Uganda: New Vision Printing & Publishing Corporation, 2000 -
Current daily issue in Luganda and a searchable archive -- since 2000 -- of the electronic version of this government-run newspaper.
The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS) -- African Languages (Cape Town, South Africa)
- The site includes an extensive listing of print publications [for sale in South Africa] and research program news. "The major area of current involvement of CASAS is the classification of African Languages on the basis of mutual intelligibility. This work is part of the CASAS Harmonization and Standardization of African Languages Project."
- CASAS Home Page
- "Challenges to the promotion of indigenous languages in South Africa," by Kwesi Kwa Prah (2007)
  35 pages in PDF format
- See also: South African languages below
Comprehensive Bibliography of Chadic and Hausa Linguistics (2015). Compiled by Paul Newman Third edition. -- Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Libraries. 2015. IUScholar Works.

Chichewa/Chinyanja/English Dictionary Online (Heart for Malawi, Veenendall, The Netherlands)
Conferences on African Languages and Linguistics
- World Congress of African Linguistics--WOCAL 11th International Conference, August 5-9, 2024, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
- African Association for Lexicography: AFRILEX 2024: 28th International Conference of the African Association for Lexicography, July 1-4, 2024, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
- Southern African Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Society: 2023 SALALS Conference, July 3-6, 2023, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha Campus, Eastern Cape, South Africa
- African Language Association of Southern Africa (Pretoria, South Africa) 23rd Biennial Conference of the African Languages Association of Southern Africa, September 21-24, 2022, Stellenbosch, South Africa---Book of Abstracts
- WOCAL 9: World Congress of African Linguistics: "African Languages in a Global World"--Rabat, Morocco, August 22-26, 2018 (viaThe Netherlands Institute in Morocco)
- International Congress of Linguists 20th Conference, July 2-6, 2018, Cape Town, South Africa
  "The Dynamics of Language"
- Columbia University: 1st Conference of the Northeast Consortium for Programs in African Languages, Columbia University, March 24-25, 2017, New York
  Co-sponsored by the Dept. of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, the Institute of African Studies, Office of the University Provost, The Language Resource Center, and others.
- CLASA 2017--Conference of the Language Association of South Africa, June 26-29, 2017, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa -- "Multilingualism and Transformation in the Knowledge Age."
- 5th International Conference on Bantu Languages, June 12-15, 2013, Paris, France
  The deadline for paper abstracts is December 10, 2012.
- "Language in African Performing and Visual Arts: Global Trends, Issues and Perspectives," October 2-4, 2008, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Sponsored by Yale Program in African Languages.
  For details, see the preliminary program.
- Cascadilla Proceedings Project--African Linguistics (Cascadilla Press, Somerville, Massachusetts)
  
  -- Selected Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Edited by Ruth Kramer, Elizabeth C. Zsiga, and One Tlale Boyer. -- Somerville, Massachusetts: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2015. [A conference originally held at Georgetown University, March 7-10, 2013; abstracts and full text in PDF format.]
  -- Selected Proceedings of the Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 2004-2013; plus other proceedings.
- The 32nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, March 22-25, 2001, University of California, Berkeley: "Linguistics Reconstruction and Comparison in Africa." (via Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio)
- 5th Annual ALTA Conference, April 26-28, 2001 (via National African Language Resource Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
CLHASS--Contribution de la linguistique à l'histoire de l'Afrique sub-saharienne (Université de Lyon, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Institut des Sciences de l'Homme, et Dynamique du Langage, Lyon, France)
- Ce groupe de recherche travaille principalement sur les langues bantous du Cameroun et du Gabon. Leur site offre un répertoire des colloques et des rechercheurs en plus d'un petit recueil de publications en ligne.
- Ressources: une petite archive de la revue Lapholia--un recueil d'études linguistiques sur l'Afrique centrale ; en plus, une base de données sur les poissons du Gabon
Diola Language and Culture (Senegal and Guinea-Bissau)
- Au-Senegal.com: Aline Sitoé Diatta, reine et prêtresse, héroïne de la résistance casamançaise (Dakar, Sénégal)
- Cap-Skirring.com : Diolas -et- la langue diola (Sénégal)
- Live Lingua Project: US Peace Corps Jola Courses (Boston, Massachusetts)
Douala/Duala sur la Toile
- Dictionnaire duala--français, suivi d'un lexique français--duala par Paul Helmlinger. -- Paris : Editions Klincksieck, 1972. 688 pages en format PDF (via CLHASS--Contribution de la linguistique à l'histoire de l'Afrique sub-saharienne, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France)
ELAN--Ecole et langues nationales en Afrique (Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, Paris, France)
- "L’objectif de l’Initiative ELAN-Afrique est de promouvoir dans huit pays africains sub-sahariens (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroun, Mali, Niger, RD Congo, Sénégal) l’usage conjoint des langues africaines et de la langue française dans l’enseignement primaire, en particulier en soutenant les huit ministères de l’éducation..."
- Fulfulde-Français Bi-Grammaire
- Lingala-Français Bi-Grammaire
- Mandingue-Français Bi-Grammaire
- Songhay-Zarma-Français Bi-Grammaire
- Wolof-Français Bi-Grammaire

ELLAf--Encyclopédie des littératures en langues africaines (LLCAN--Langage, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique Noire, CNRS, Paris, France)
- "...ELLAf propose de créer...un cadre pour la réflexion théorique et une bibliothèque numérique en ligne qui rassemble des corpus de littératures orales et écrites en langues africaines quel que soit leur statut sociolinguistique. Pour pouvoir analyser la complexité de la création littéraire en langues africaines, 11 langues et littératures à statuts et localisations différents sont présentes sur le site dès la phase inaugurale... Des textes littéraires sous forme d’extraits ou en version intégrale accompagnés d’une traduction en français et/ou en anglais seront présentés selon un protocole commun, visant à préciser la contextualisation de chaque texte..."
- Colloque "Littératures en langues africaines: production, réception, diffusion" a eu lieu les 29, 30 septembre et 1er octobre 2016:
  Programme -et- Livret des résumés
- Veuillez voir surtout: Igbo ; Peul ; Swahili ; Wolof ; Zarma
Endangered Languages Archive--Africa School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. (London, UK)
"The Endangered Language Archive (ELAR) is a digital repository preserving and publishing endangered language documentation materials from around the world. The materials we hold are digital, and are freely available (after free registration)."
Ethiopic Script Omniglot: a guide to written language. (Simon Ager, USA)
A very brief introduction to the script or fidel used in Ethiopia and Eritrea--especially for Ge'ez, Amharic, and Tigrinya; with a syllabary and related links.
Ethnologue Country Index -- Africa (From Ethnologue (Online), SIL International, Dallas, Texas, 1999-)
For each country in Africa, there is a listing and description of languages, and a map of languages.
Fon language: Guide d'apprentissage en Fon (Live Lingua Project, Peace Corps Fon Course, USA) 112 pages in PDF format
For Fula, Fulani, or Fulfulde, see: Fula Language on the Internet
"Gambian Studies Series", by Professor David P. Gamble. Part of The Gambia: Signature Program (St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, MD)
- Selected works by David Gamble, including Senegambian folktales; Fula, Mandinka, and Wolof grammar and glossaries; oral histories; and bibliographies on The Gambia. All works are downloadable in PDF format.
Hausa Language Web Pages
- Abubakarimam.com (Nigeria)
  Created in 2004, this small digital library consists of works by Abubakar Imam, originally published by Northern Nigerian Publishing Company in Zaria, includes several works in Hausa: Ruwan Bagaja ; Magana Jari Ce ; Tarihin Annabi Kammalalle ; and, his memoir in English.
- African Storybook (Saide, Braamfontein, South Africa)
  Search under "Read" for Hausa titles. Since 2013, a South African-based NGO publishes and promotes the dissemination of children's story books in African languages. As of early 2018, there are 58 e-books in Hausa from Nigeria -and- 28 from Niger.
- BBC World Service in Hausa (British Broadcasting Corporation, London, UK)
- Boston University, African Studies Center---African Proverbs Project: Hausa Proverbs (Boston, Massachusetts)
  "The project team has gathered, edited and produced content for a multimedia instructional website for advanced Hausa based upon ten common proverbs/sayings. The website, featuring professional-quality video and audio of the languages in authentic situations, is a unique resource to help students to develop proficiency and cultural competence in Hausa."
- The British Library--Endangered Archives Programme: Gaskiya ta fi Kwabo [1939-1958] (London, UK)
  --See also: "World War II and the origins of Hausa newspapers: the early years of 'Gaskiya ta fi Kwabo'."
  --Plus: "Gaskiya ta fi Kwabo, World War II and the Romanisation of Hausa," November 2015.
- Comprehensive Bibliography of Chadic and Hausa Linguistics (2015). Compiled by Paul Newman. (Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington, Indiana) See above
- Columbia University -- Hausa Resources
  -- Hausa Acquisitions at Columbia University Libraries (2023)
- Deutsche Welle News Summaries and Radio Broadcasts in Hausa (Bonn, Germany)
- Gaskiya Ta Fi Kwabo. (Online) -- Kaduna, Nigeria: New Nigerian Newspapers Ltd., 2005-
  The online weekly edition of the Hausa version of the New Nigerian, an English language newspaper, with current news and selected older articles.
- Google Books -- Historical Hausa
  -- Dictionary of the Hausa language, vol. 1 Hausa-English (1913) by Charles Henry Robinson (Cambridge, UK: University of Cambridge, 1913)
  -- Dictionary of the Hausa language, with appendices of Hausa literature (1876) by James Frederick Schön (London: Church Missionary House, 1876)
  -- Grammar of the Hausa language (1862) by Rev. J. F. Schön (London: Church Missionary House, 1862)
  -- Hausa grammar, with exercises, readings, and vocabularies (1905) by Charles H. Robinson & Maj. J. Alder Burdon (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1905)
  -- Hausa proverbs (1905) by Capt. G. Merrick (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1905)
  -- Magána Hausa: native literature or proverbs, tales, fables and historical fragments in the Hausa language (1885) by J.F. Schön (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1885)
- Gumel.Com: Barka da zuwa filin Hausa (Mohammed Hashim Gumel, USA)
  A web site entirely in Hausa, with news from Nigeria (in English, from Nigerian newspapers or e-mail reports), Hausa radio program files, cultural information, and related links.
- Hausa : basic course. (1963) By Carleton T. Hodge and Ibrahim Umaru. [Washington, DC: Foreign Service Institute, Department of State, 1963 ; 399 pages] PDF format. (FSI Language Courses, USA)
  --Audio lessons
- HausaFilms.TV -- Kannywood, Fina-finai, Hausa Movies, TV and Celebrities (Nigeria)
  Begun in 2011, a wiki-based directory web site for Hausa films, information about films--synopsis, directors, actors, etc., with excerpts of films found on YouTube.com and elsewhere.
- Hausa Home Page (University of California, Los Angeles)
  This site offers basic information and links on Hausa language and culture, including an annotated bibliography and Hausar Baka Online--Videos for Hausa Language and Culture.
- Hausa Home Video Resource Centre--Blog (2016) (Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria and University of Wisconsin, Madison)
  Information about publications, film screenings, related web links, and other projects in the Hausa language. Note: Updates to this graduate student-run site were suspended in 2014 and briefly resumed in March 2016. As of April 2017, there have been no recent postings in at least one year.
- "Hausa Names for Plants and Trees (2007)." By Dr. Roger Blench, Kay Williamson Foundation, University of Cambridge, UK. --via Academia.edu ; 77 pages in PDF format.
- Hausa Online: Learning Hausa... (Nigeria & USA)
  "...a private weblog and not linked to any institution, University, or radio station." This web site features an extensive array of up-to-date links to Hausa dictionaries, grammars, e-books, and videos.
- H-Hausa Discussion Network (H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  "H-Hausa is for the discussion of issues related to Hausa language, literature and culture."
- Online Bargery Hausa-English Dictionary (1934) (via Bunkyo University, Tokyo, Japan)
  A searchable online "dictionary" (glossary) for Hausa-English, English-Hausa translation, based on the dictionary and vocabulary by Rev. George Percy Bargery, originally published in 1934, containing over 45,000 words.
- Premium times Hausa. (Abuja, Nigeria) News
- Shamsuddeen : Hausa Dictionary and Other Resources (Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria)
  The site includes English, Hausa, and Arabic dictionaries and word lists, Hausa Qur'an search,"Hausa psychology"--proverbs and sayings, etc.
- United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: Muhimmin Jawabin da Majalisar Dinkin Duniya ta bayyana game da Hakkokin Yan-adam a shekarar 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 (Geneva, Switzerland)
- University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies: Hausa Popular Literature Database (2001)
  "This database documents the private collection of Hausa popular literature and video film in the possession of Professor Graham Furniss of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. "
Igbo on the Internet
- Igbo Open Source Translation Project (USA)
  This site includes project-related links and contact information. "This project aims to translate popular software for the Linux operating system, including Gnome, KDE, Mozilla, Thunderbird and Open Office into Igbo."
- Igboid (Dr. Roger Blench, Kay Williamson Educational Foundation, Cambridge, UK)
  The files include an edited version (2013) of Kay Williamson's Dictionary of Onicha Igbo, originally published in 1972.
- IgboNet -- The Igbo Network (Igbo Heritage, Inc., USA)
  - A portal website for Igbo language and culture in the diaspora. The site includes:
  - Ahiajoku lecture series. (Online) -- Owerri, Nigeria: Imo State Ministry of Information and Culture, 1979-
  - Igbo Language Center -- Lessons 1-4
- Igbo Radio (Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria) Since 2009
Indiana University, Center for Language Technology and Instructional Enrichment: Foreign/Second Language Portal (Bloomington, Indiana)
Links to curricula and online language lessons for 46 languages worldwide, including: Akan/Twi, Amharic, Arabic, Bambara, Chichewa, Hausa, Luganda, Sesotho, Setswana, Shona, Swahili, Wolof, and Zulu.
Intellectuels non europhones. par Ousmane Kane. Document de travail. -- Dakar, Sénégal: Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique (CODESRIA), c2003. (Format PDF)
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions: "Sources for African language materials from the countries of Anglophone Africa." (1995) by Alfred Kagan. (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 61st IFLA General Conference, Conference Proceedings, August 20-25, 1995. (IFLANET; via Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique, France)
ISOLA--International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (USA)
"The Society was established in 1991 in London and it draws its international membership from experts and students involved in the exploration of the oral traditions of Africa and the African Diaspora...organizes regular scholarly conferences: London, UK (1991); Legon, Ghana (1995); Cape Town, South Africa (1998); Chambery, France (2002); Banjul, Gambia (2004); and, Trinidad and Tobago (2006); and Lecce, Italy (July 2008)."
The Internet and African Languages -- Research
- ANLoc--The African Network for Localization (Pretoria, South Africa)
  A program dedicated to localization or the adaptation of ICT for African languages. This wiki site includes information about research projects and conferences, a forum for project partners and other researchers---with downloadable presentations and other documents; plus related links.
- Bisharat! A language, technology, and development initiative (The Netherlands)
  - "Bisharat! is an evolving idea based on the importance of maternal languages in sustainable development and the enormous potential of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) to benefit efforts in the area of language and development. Anticipating the gradual introduction of computers and the internet to rural communities in Africa, the current focus of Bisharat is on research, advocacy, and networking relating to use of African languages in software and web content."
  - Basic documents on language policy in Africa
  - A12N-Collaboration -- African Language Encoding, Fonts, Keyboards: Discussion Fora and Reference Pages
  - Pan African Localisation Project = Projet panafricain sur la localisation (Supported by IDRC and in collaboration with Kabissa) ***Superseded in 2008 by "ANLoc"--see above
    PanAfrLoc/ PmWiki Workshop, June 13-16, 2005, Casablanca, Morocco
  - Links
- klnX: The Open Swahili Localization Project = Mradi wa kuswahilisha programu huria (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; IT+46, Sweden)
  The website about the joint effort to provide computer operating software in Kiswahili.
- "Le traitement informatique des langues africaines" (novembre 2003). Par Marcel Diki-Kidiri, Edema Atibakwa Baboya, et Christian Chanard. Cahiers du Rifal; no. 23. (via Carrefour International Francophone de Documentation et d'Information, Paris, France)
  Ce document comprend une liste des sites étudiés dans l'annexe de 50 pages. Voir aussi, le site principal des Cahiers du Rifal qui est publié au Canada.
- "Traitement informatique des langues africaines: problèmes et perspectives" (décembre 1995). Par Emile Camara [...et alli.] (Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France)
  --via Horizons Pleins Textes, Institut de recherche pour le développement.
- Unicode Consortium (Mountain View, California)
  - "The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization originally founded to develop, extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard, which specifies the representation of text in modern software products and standards."
  - Language and scripts already encoded
- University of California--Berkeley, Department of Linguistics: Script Encoding Initiative (Berkeley, California)
  - "The goal of the project is to fund the development of script proposals that will be successfully approved by the Unicode Technical Committee without requiring extensive revision or involvement of the committee itself. A secondary goal for certain scripts is to produce freely-available fonts, both for publication of the standards and for end-users."
  - Lists of language scripts not yet encoded
Journal of West African languages. (Online) -- [Ibadan, Nigeria] : West African Linguistic Society, 1964-
Since 2015, this journal has been open access; the web site includes an archive of all journal issues, 1964 to present.
--See also: West African Linguistic Society below.
Lingala Language Resources
- Foreign Service Institute: Lingala Basic Course (1963) By James Redden F. Bongo et al.
  -- Washington, DC: FSI, 1963. 308 pages in PDF formatv ; plus audio files.
- Lexilogos: Dictionnaires Lingala-Français (Xavier Nègre et alli., France)
- Lingala-Français Bi-Grammaire (ELAN--Ecole et langues nationales en Afrique, via L'Agence universitaire de la Francophonie, Montréal, Québec, Canada)
LLACAN--Langage, Langues et cultures d'Afrique noire (Villejuif, France)
"Le Llacan...est une Unité Mixte de Recherche qui associe le CNRS et l'Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco) autour d'un projet scientifique d'étude et de description des langues de l'Afrique subsaharienne." Ce site offre l'accés à plusieurs bases de données, une revue sur la langue bamanankan--Mandekan, un catalogue des fonds documentaires dans une grande bibliothèque de linguistique, les listes des publications des membres de l'équipe du LLACAN, etc.
--Veuillez voir surtout: WEB-BALL: Web Bibliography of African Languages and Linguistics par J.F. Maho et alli. (une base de données avec plus de 24.000 références)
Luba-Kasai/Luba-Lulua -- Cilubà Language Resources and Online Dictionaries (David Joffe, AfricanLanguages.Com, Pretoria, South Africa)
For Luganda Language Resources, see: Buganda Home Page -and- Bukedde above
Maa (Maasai) Language Project (Doris L. Payne et al., Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon)
The web site offers a description of the project in Kenya and a set of texts on the history and major features of the Maa language spoken in both Kenya and Tanzania.
Malagasy = Malgache
- Dictionnaire français malgache -- Voyage linguistique autour de l'Ile Rouge (France)
  - Chansons
  - Contes et légendes
- Poeta Malagasy (Madagascar)
  Un site en malgache qui est consacré aux poêtes contemporains malagaches et à leurs poésies.
Société Internationale de Linguistique--Mali : Recherche Linguistique, Formation, Traduction, Alphabétisation = SIL Mali--Linguistic Research, Training, Translation, Literacy
"Nous travaillons ici depuis plus de 30 ans en tant qu'ONG signataire d'Accord-Cadre avec l'Etat."

--Veuillez voir surtout: Resources par langue ou par sujet
--Voir aussi: "A Preliminary Report of Existing Information on the Manding Languages of West Africa" (2004). By Terrence D. Sullivan. -- Dallas, Texas: SIL International, 2004. (PDF format)
--Plus: SIL International (Dallas, Texas) ci-dessous
Mandenkan. (Online). -- Paris: LLACAN--Langage, Langues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire, 1981-
Un bulletin spécialisé des études linguistiques mandé...paraît environ 2 fois par an.
Speak Manding - An ka taa (2023) (Dr. Coleman Donaldson, USA)
"An ka taa" is a website featuring free lessons on Bambara or Dioula, with a variety of texts and videos, including a searchable dictionary. "An ka taa is an initiative to offer modern educational media, resources and lessons for current and emergent speakers of Manding—commonly referred to as Bambara, Dioula, Malinké or Mandingo."
Mandingue-Français Bi-Grammaire (via ELAN-Ecole et langues nationales en Afrique, Montréal, Québec, Canada)
Mandinka and Wolof Resources (Momodou Camara, DAPAMDA--Danish Association for Promotion of African Music, Drama & Art, Copenhagen)
- This webpage consists of links to downloadable dictionaries and grammars in PDF format. See also: Word Search and the larger The Gambia Resource Page.
- For other resources, see also: SIL: Preliminary report on...Manding languages (2004) --and-- N'ko -- The Mandingo Language Site below....and David Gamble's "Gambian Studies Series" above
Mandinka Language Work Book. Written by Adam Njie, Bakary Camara, Muhammadou M.S. Bah ; edited by Sarjo Dumbuya. -- Washington, DC: Peace Corps/The Gambia, c2007. 83 pages in WORD format
Mother Tongue Editions: promoting literacy, writing, and publishing in African languages (West Newbury, Massachusetts)
"...a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of African languages and cultures, in all of the forms in which they are manifested. Initially involved uniquely in publishing, today MTE produces and distributes a variety of culturally significant representations of language and traditional artisanry."
--Publications for sale
National African Language Resource Center (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana)
- "The National African Language Resource Center is a federally funded, nonprofit national foreign language center dedicated to the advancement of African language teaching and learning in the United States."
"An Atlas of Nigerian Languages." (2019). By Roger Blench. (Cambridge, UK) --via Academia.edu ; 198 pages in PDF format.
--See also: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation --via Roger Blench, UK
Nilo-Saharan Newsletter = Informations nilo-sahariennes (2007) (via CNRS-LLACAN, Villejuif, France)
- Ce site --en français ou en anglais-- est consacré aux études et recherches concernant les langues nilo-sahariennes, qui sont parlées au centre et à l'est du continent africain. Vous trouverez ici: un "who's who" (provisoire) des études nilo-sahariennes; une liste d'institutions (universités, centres de recherche, éditeurs...) en relation avec le domaine; des annonces de colloques, etc.
- Liste de publications
- 10th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium = 10ème Colloque de Linguistique Nilo-Saharienne, Paris, France, 22-24 août 2007
N'ko -- The Mandingo Language Site (Mamadi Baba Diané, Washington, DC)
A site --in English, French, Arabic, and Mandekan in N'ko script-- about the N'ko script, with links to the major web sites on the subject in France, Belgium, United States, and Africa. There is also a list of books published in the N'ko script.
Babawilly's Dictionary of Pidgin English Words and Phrases (Lagos Pidgin) (via NigeriaExchange.Com; Dearborn, Michigan and Lagos, Nigeria)
"Proverbs in African Languages." (October 2019) Web Dossier. (The Library of the African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands)
About Publishing in African Languages
- Actes du Colloque --"Les Défis de la Promotion et de la Distribution des Livres en Langues Africaines, 27-28 novembre 2017, Conakry, Guinée. --via Alliance Internationale des Editeurs Indépendants ; 24 pages en format PDF
- Monde du Livre: "L'édition en langues africaines chez les éditeurs d'Afrique francophone," April 2013, by Danusia Richer. (Université d'Aix-Marseille, France) --via OpenEdition
- Publishing in African Languages: A Review of the Literature. (2018) By Hans Zell. --via Academia.edu ; 74 pages in PDF format.
- RTI International. Survey of Children's Reading Materials in African Languages in Eleven Countries--Final Report.
  (May 2016)
  -- Washington, DC: United States Agency for International Development, 2016. 71 pages in PDF format.
  --See also: Annexes to this report, with country survey data....and related publications
For Pulaar or Peul, see: Fula Language on the Internet
Sereer dans << Conte-Moi la Francophonie >> : Contes du Sénégal Pour enfants(Paris, France)
Veuillez voir surtout les fichiers sonores en sereer et les textes en français.
Sesotho on the Web
- Online Sesotho sa Leboa (Northern Sotho) -- English Dictionary Using Tshwanelex. (Pretoria, South Africa)
- Sesotho Online (J.K. Olivier, South Africa)
  A very basic and short primer in Southern Sesotho; some links, especially on Lesotho, and no sound files.
Shona Language Resources
- ALLEX Project--African Languages Lexical Project (University of Oslo, Norway)
  The website includes online versions of whole dictionaries and text corpora for Shona and Ndebele. "The ALLEX Project seeks ...to provide dictionaries and other language tools for the African languages used in Zimbabwe; to train Zimbabwean linguists at the University of Zimbabwe as lexicographers and practical language planners; to lay the foundation for a centre for lexicography and language planning for the native languages of Southern Africa; and to improve research opportunities in linguistics."
- Carter, Hazel and G.P. Kahari. Shona language course. (1981) Books I, II, III. (Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin at Madison, African Studies Program, 1981) --via Educational Resources Information Center, United States, Department of Education, Washington, DC
- Foreign Service Institute (Washington, DC) -- Shona Basic Course (1965): E-book and Audio tapes --via Live Lingua Project (Boston, Massachusetts)
- Introduction to the Shona Language (Cameron Smith, UK)
  Brief lessons in Shona and links to Shona language-related sites.
- University of Florida Libraries' "George Fortune Collection" of Shona and Other African Language Materials (Dan Reboussin; George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida)
  An online index to holdings in SHONA especially ... but also: Nguni (Ndebele, Zulu, and Xhosa) and Sotho. The materials span the years 1868-1983 and include some 1,800 items. 'The collection also includes a significant complement of Central and Eastern Bantu materials and a component of West African language materials.'
SIL International (Dallas, Texas) Société Internationale de Linguistique
- The web site includes a newsletter, online publications (PDF format), and links to related matters---including SIL's well-known reference publication: Ethnologue. "Founded 70 years ago (originally as the Summer Institute of Linguistics), SIL International is a faith-based organization that studies, documents, and assists in developing the world's lesser known languages. SIL's staff shares a Christian commitment to service, academic excellence, and professional engagement through literacy, linguistics, translation, and other academic disciplines."
- SIL International Home Page
- SIL-Mali (See above)
- "Bwa Bloc Survey Report" (2004). By Douglas W. Boone, Kenneth S. Olson.
- "An evaluation of Niger-Congo Classification" (2004). By Kenneth S. Olson.
Soninké language and culture
- Asawan (Bamako, Mali)
  - "Ce site --en français, an anglais, et en soninkaanxanne-- est consacré uniquement à la langue et à la littérature soninkée. Vous y découvrirez des documents (téléchargeables gratuitement) utilisant l'alphabet romain mais aussi l'alphabet arabe: le fait d'écrire le soninké avec les caractères arabes s'appelle l'ajami soninké."
  - Lexique Soninké-Français-Anglais
  - Un bibliothèque numérique de proverbes, de devinettes, et de contes soninkés
- SIL-Mali: Soninke Publications (Bamako, Mali)
- Soninkara.com (Paris, France)
  - Un site qui offre un recueil des images et des résumés utiles sur la culture contemporaine et l'histoire des peuples soninkés dans les pays du Sénégal, du Mali, de la Mauritanie et de la Gambie.
  - Extraits de contes et poèmes en Soninké
  - Apprendre le Soninke
- Portail Soninkara Soninkara.org (Paris, France)
  Un autre blog --en français-- pour la culture soninké et les actualités sur les activités; des organisations soninkés et des personnes notables de l'origine soninké.
  --Veuillez voir surtout: Langue soninké -et- Histoire Soninké
South African Languages
- See also: The Centre for the Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS) above
- PRAESA--Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa (University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa)
  "...Established by Dr Neville Alexander in 1992, PRAESA emerged from the struggle against apartheid education...Local areas of work until 2011 included language planning and policy formulation at national and provincial government levels, in-service teacher education, developmental research into multilingual classrooms, early literacy teaching and learning, promoting a culture of reading...Since 2006, a particular concentration has been on reading promotion through the establishment of community based reading clubs...in 2012, PRAESA begins a new phase, with a biliteracy development focus by initiating a national reading-for-enjoyment initiative..."
- SAlanguages.com (Jake Olivier, South Africa)
  This site provides general information about South Africa's 11 official languages (and several unofficial ones), with brief grammars, pronunciation guides, suggested textbooks, bibliographies on academic research, and links to related web sites for each language.
- Sesotho on the Web
- South African Voices University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. (Madison, Wisconsin)
  "South African Voices is a three-volume work that includes: A Long Time Passed, Created in Olden Times, and The Way We Travelled: Oral History and Poetry. This work consists of electronic audio files and transcribed written texts of oral traditions and histories, poetry, folktales, and stories in Xhosa, Zulu, and Siswati collected, transcribed, and edited by Professor Harold Scheub.
- Xhosa on the Web
- Zulu Language on the Internet
Southern African Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Society (Potchefstroom, South Africa)
"... scholarly society of linguists whose research foci are the languages of the Southern African region. The languages within the Society's purview are: Afrikaans, Bemba, ChiShona, Chichewa, Ciluba, Damara, English, French, German, isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Nama, Nyanja, Portuguese, San, Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, Sindebele,Siswati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga."
Studies in African linguistics. (Online) -- Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida ; Portland, Oregon: Studies in African Linguistics, Inc., [1970]-
The web site features open access to "articles" from 1970 to the present. "...a peer-reviewed, academic journal whose goal is to provide a public forum within the community of African language scholars for discourse on issues of direct concern to the field of African Linguistics. Thus, the journal seeks to publish African language data and analysis that might not find a place easily or suitably in more general journals."

Sudlangues. (Online), 2002-2016 -- Dakar, Sénégal: La Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, 2002-.
La dernière mise à jour était au mois de décembre 2016. << [Cette revue] est destinée aux universitaires, enseignants, chercheurs et étudiants intervenant dans le secteur des sciences du langage. Elle est ouverte à tous les chercheurs du monde, et accordera une attention toute particulière à ceux du sud, plus confrontés à des problèmes d'édition.>>
Swahili Language on the Internet (Columbia University Libraries)
Twi Language Resources LangMedia--Resources for World Languages (Five College Center for the Study of World Languages, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
The site includes "CultureTalk" (text and audio) -and- LangMedia Twi in Ghana: a video and text collection for an elementary Twi course.

UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning: Why and how Africa should invest in African languages and multilingual education (2010) by Adama Ouane and Christine Glanz. -- Hamburg, Germany:
The Institute, developed in collaboration with the Association for the Development of Education in Africa, 2010. 76 pages in PDF (French version)
UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2009-2010) (Paris, France)
UNESCO International Bureau of Education: Teaching and learning to read in a multilingual context: ways forward for three sub-Saharan African countries (Burkina Faso, Niger, Senegal). 2017. -- Geneva, Switzerland: IBE, 2017. 323 pages in PDF format.
Web Resources for African Languages (2008-2009) (Jouni F. Maho, Göteborg University, Södra Anneberg, Partille, Sweden)
- A basic introduction to African language classification and selected links to African linguistic studies for each major language---online articles and conference proceedings, etc.; plus links to conference web sites, selected online journals, and related web pages, etc. NOTE: updates to this site have been suspended.
- Sub-Saharan languages and peoples: a bibliographical survey of pre-1920 works (April 2008). Compiled by Jouni F. Maho. Electronic bibliography for African languages and linguistics. (652 pages in PDF format)
West African Linguistic Society = Société de Linguistique de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (via University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria)
"WALS is a non-profitable association of academics, research workers, field workers and teachers drawn from the West African sub-region. These countries include Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Mali Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo...Currently we have members resident in North America (Canada and USA), European Union (France, Netherlands, Spain, UK etc)."

--WALC 2023: 33rd West African Languages Congress, October 23-26, 2023, Legon, Accra, Ghana

--See also: Journal of West African languages. (Online): 1964 to present
Wolof Language on the Internet (Columbia University Libraries)
WOCAL--World Congress of African Linguistics (See Conferences above)
Xhosa on the Web! (1996): English-Xhosa/Xhosa-English translation (Martha O'Kennon, Dept. of Mathematics, Albion College, Michigan, USA)
Xhosa -- Web Resources for African Languages (2008) (Jouni F. Maho, Partille, Sweden)
A collection of links to sites with e-books, full text journal articles, theses, and working papers, and other resources...especially on Xhosa linguistics. NOTE: updates to this site have been suspended.
Yoruba Language on the Internet
- Àkóye: Àkóyege Ède Yorùba Lóri Ero (African Studies Institute, University of Georgia, Athens)
  "...a multimedia course integrating the use of video, audio, and text. There will be three levels: elementary, intermediate, and advanced. The plan is to facilitate gradual learning of Yorùbá both in the traditional classroom and independently."
- Alaroye.org (Lagos, Nigeria) Yoruba news website
- The British Library: "Early Yoruba Books at the BL and How to Find (Some of) Them Online," September 2, 2020. Asian and African studies blog. (London, UK)
- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: Ìkéde Káríayé Fún É̟tó̟ O̟mo̟nìyàn Ò̟rò̟ Àkó̟so̟. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 (Geneva, Switzerland)
- Yoruba -- Learn Yoruba Home Page (BIS BUS International, Ontario, Canada)
  This website offers a basic primer, with audio files and downloadable font; plus information on a publication Yoruba language learning = Yorùbá mõ ön kô, mõ ön ká to be ordered.
- Yoruba.Name.com (Lagos, Nigeria)
  A cultural dictionary of names, with meaning in English and related information.
- Yorùba Yé Mi: a beginning Yorùba textbook (University of Texas, Austin)
  Open access to grammar text and audio files. "...an interactive, communicative, introductory, multi-media program intended to provide college/university students with basic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills of language learning in Yorùbá."
Zarma Dictionary = Dictionnaire Zarma Bisharat! (The Netherlands)
A short multilingual dictionary originally developed by the U.S. Peace Corps, Niger, revised 2001 and 2004.
Zarma-Songhay-Français Bi-Grammaire (via ELAN-Ecole et langues nationales en Afrique, Paris, France)
Languages of Zambia Page (Lee S. Bickmore, Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Albany)
A list of languages of Zambia and related links on Zambia.
Zulu Language on the Internet
- Columbia University: Zulu Language and Culture Acquisitions at Columbia University Libraries (2017)
  (New York)
- Google Books -- Historical Zulu
  -- First steps in Zulu: being an elementary grammar of the Zulu language (1903) by Rt. Rev. J. W. Colenso (Pietermaritzburg & Durban: Vause, Slatter & Co., 1903)
  -- The IsiZulu: a revised edition of a grammar of the Zulu language (1893) by Rev. Lewis Grout (Boston: American Board Commissioners for Foreign Mission, 1893)
  -- A Zulu-English dictionary, with notes on prononciation...a synopsis of Zulu grammar and a concise history of the Zulu people from the most ancient times (1905) by Alfred T. Bryant (Pietermaritzburg & Durban: P. Davis & Sons ; Cape Town, Johannesburg, & Durban: J.C. Juta, 1905)
  -- A Zulu manual, or Vade-mecum (1900) by Rev. Charles Roberts (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1900)
- Google.Com -- IsiZulu (USA)
  Search the web using Google web search engine in IsiZulu!
- Ilanga news. (Online) -- Durban, South Africa: Ilanga News, 2017-
- Indiana University, Center for Language Technology: Zulu
  (Bloomington, Indiana)
  This site offers video clips from the language lab: Selections from "Izindaba" (news) and lessons on grammar and conversation.
- isiZulu.net: Zulu-English/English-Zulu online dictionary (via Schlund & Partner, Karlsruhe, Germany)
  An online dictionary, with some sample audio files, based on African Voices publications from South Africa, and compiled with TshwaneLex software.
- Isolezwe. (Online) -- Cape Town ; Johannesburg: Independent Online Ltd., 2006-
  Selected articles in Zulu and English from this online edition of the daily newspaper from South Africa. Full access requires a subscription.
- Jason Wolfe's English to Zulu Medical Dictionary (1998) (London, UK)
- South African Voices. University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. (See above)
- United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: Umbhalo ogcwele wogunyazo lwamalungelo Oluntu jikelele Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 (Geneva, Switzerland)
- Wordgumbo: English-Zulu/Zulu-English lexicons (USA)

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