African Language Resource Handbook [microform] : A Resource Handbook of the Eighty-two Highest Priority African Languages. Prepublication Edition / David J. Dwyer and Everyl Yankee
- Bib ID:
- 5452876
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Dwyer, David J
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED256170
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1985
- 242 p.
- Summary:
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A directory of the 82 African languages given high priority for instruction in the United States contains a profile for each language that includes its classification and where it is spoken, the number of speakers, dialect situation, usage, orthography status, and listings of related human and institutional resources for the purpose of systematizing instruction. The languages profiled are: Akan, Amharic, Anyi/Baule, Arabic, Bamileke, Bemba, Berber, Chewa/Nyanja, Chokwe/Lunda, Dinka (Agar/Bor/ Padang), Ebira, Edo (Bini), Efik/Ibibio/Anaang, Ewe/Mina/Fon (Gbe), Fulfulde (Fulani/Peul, Fula), Ganda (oluGanda, Luganda), Gbaya, Gogo, Gurage, Hausa, Hehe, Idoma, Igbo, Ijo, Kalenjin (Nandi/Kipsigis), Kamba, Kanuri, Kikuyu, Kongo (Kituba), Kpelle, Krio/Pidgin (Cluster), Kru/Bassa, Lingala, Lozi (Silozi), Luba (Chiluba), Luo/Acholi/Lango, Luyia, Maasai, Makua/Lomwe, Malagasy, Mandingo, Mauritian Creole, Mbundu (Kiumbundu), Mende/Bandi/Loko, Meru, Mongo/Nkundo, More, Nama, Nubian, Nuer, Nupe, Nyakusa, Nyoro, Oromo, Ruanda/Rundi, Sango, Sara, Senufo (Senari), Serer, Shona, Sidamo, Somali, Songhai, Soninke, Sotho/Tswana, Sukuma/Nyamwezi, Suppire, Susu, Swahili, Temne, Teso/Turkana, Tigrinya, Tiv, Tsonga, Tumbuka, Umbundu, Venda, Wolof, Xhosa/Zulu/Swazi, Yao (Makonde), Yoruba, and Zande. Appendices (40% of the document) include: (1) a list of languages by priority category; (2) institutional and individual questionnaires; (3) a bibliography; (4) listings of resource persons and institutions; (5) a country by country listing of the priority languages; and (6) a listing of languages and the country where it is spoken. (MSE)
- Notes:
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- Sponsoring Agency: Department of Education, Washington, DC.
- Contract Number: G00-82-02163.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- African Languages
- Afro Asiatic Languages
- Dialects
- Educational Policy
- Information Sources
- Language Classification
- Language Role
- Language Usage
- Malagasy
- Mauritian Creole
- Native Language Instruction
- Official Languages
- Orthographic Symbols
- Public Policy
- Second Language Instruction
- Sierra Leone Creole
- Written Language
- Other authors/contributors:
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1985
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