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Africa -- Languages

Here are entered general works on the languages used in Africa, including languages originating in Europe or other places outside Africa. Works on the indigenous languages of Africa are entered under African languages.

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• Africa -- Languages -- Bibliography
• Africa -- Languages -- Texts
• Africa, Central -- Languages
• Africa, East -- Languages
• Africa, Eastern -- Languages
• Africa, Northeast -- Languages
• Africa, Southern -- Languages
• Africa, West -- Languages
• Benue-Congo languages
• Niger-Congo languages
• Nilo-Saharan languages
• Cameroon -- Languages
• Egypt -- Languages

• Languages of Africa

• Die Sprachen der Hamiten (in German; Hamburg: L. Friederischsen und Co., 1912), by Carl Meinhof, contrib. by Felix von Luschan
  • page images in Germany
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Uganda Protectorate (2 volumes, possibly from different editions; 1902-1904), by Harry Johnston, illust. by J. G. Bartholomew (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
• Linguas d'Africa (Companhia Nacional Editora, 1889), by Ladislau Batalha (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Uganda protectorate; an attempt to give some description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages and history of the territories under British protection in East Central Africa, between the Congo Free State and the Rift Valley and between the first degree of south latitude and the fifth degree of north latitude (Dodd Mead ;, 1904), by Harry Hamilton Johnston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Uganda Protectorate : an attempt to give some description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages and history of the territories under British protection in East Central Africa, between the Congo Free State and the Rift Valley and between the first degree of south latitude and the fifth degree of north latitude (Hutchinson, 1904), by Harry Hamilton Johnston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Sprachen des dunkeln Weltteils; Nachrichten über den stand der linguistischen Forschungen in Afrika (Greiner & Pfeiffer, 1909), by Carl Meinhof (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Gospels, written in the Negro patois of English, with Arabic characters ([New York?] : [publisher not identified], [1857?]], 1857), by William Brown Hodgson, active 1857 London, and Ethnological Society of New York (page images at HathiTrust)

• List of grammars, dictionaries, etc. of the languages of Asia, Oceania, Africa, in the New York public library. (New York, 1909), by New York Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)

• Folklore journal (s.n., 1879), by South African Folk-lore Society. Working Committee (page images at HathiTrust)

• Some folk-lore stories and songs in Chinyanja, with English translation and notes. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1907), by R. S. Rattray (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Bibela e e boitshèpō phetolō e ncha (British and foreign Bible society, 1908), by Roger Price, John Brown, Alfred John Wookey, and British and Foreign Bible Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Izindab'ezinhle Ezashunyayelwa Ku'Bantu : ng'uJesu-Kristo Inkosi Yetu, Kanye Nezinncwadi Ezalotshwa ng'Abapostole Bake (New Testament in Zulu; London: Pub. for Miss H. E. Colenso by J.M. Dent, 1897), trans. by John William Colenso
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The religious system of the Amazulu : with a translation into English, and notes (J.A. Blair ;, 1868), by Henry Callaway (page images at HathiTrust)
• I Baible eli ingewele. Eli ne Testamente elidala, nelitya, ku kitywa kuzo izilimi zokuqala, ku lotywa ngokwesizulu. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments (American Bible Society, 1917) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book of Genesis, translated into the Zûlû language. (American Bible Society, 1863), by American Bible Society and American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ivangeli ngokuloba ku ka Johane. (Printed by George Robinson and Son, 1860), by American Zulu Mission (page images at HathiTrust)
• ITestamente elitya lenkosi yetu uJesu Kristu : ngowesizulu. (Printed for the British and Foreign Bible Society by the American Bible Society, 1914) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• IBaible eli ingcwele : eli neTestamente elidala, nelitya, ku kitywa kuzo izilimi zokuqala, ku lotywa ngokwesizulu = The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments (British and Foreign Bible Society ;, 1917), by American Bible Society and British and Foreign Bible Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• ITestamente elitya lenkosi yetu uJesu Kristu : ngowesizulu. -- (American Zulu Mission, 1878) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amazwi ahlakanipileyo : the book of Proverbs, translated into Zulu (American Bible Society, 1873), by American Bible Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ivangeli ngokuloba kuka Marko. (American Bible Society, 1899), by David Rood and American Bible Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ivangeli ngokuloba kuka Luka. (American Bible Society, 1899), by David Rood and American Bible Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• IBaibele eli ingcwele ngokwesiZulu (American Bible Society, 1924), by J. Dexter ǂq Taylor and American Bible Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amagama okuhlabelela ... (Published by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions for the American Zulu Mission, Natal, South Africa, 1887), by American Zulu Mission and American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (page images at HathiTrust)
• Incwadi yamagama okugwaba : ya cindezelwa abafundisi ba secemerika. (Printed at the Esidumbini Mission Station, 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)
• I-agenda ukuti incwadi ye altare yamabandhla ama Lutheri (The Ebenezer Press, 1914), by Berliner Missionsgesellschaft (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Imisebenzi yabatunywa : i kums̆elwe ngabafundisi ba Semerika ngokwa 'Mazulu. (Ku iindezelwe ngumbali uyamese bukanani, ngomiindezelo wabafundisi, 1859), by Lewis Grout (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vocabulaire des dialectes sango, bakongo et a'zandé (A. Challamel, 1908), by Gaston Giraud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Documents sur les langues de l'Oubangui-Chari. (E. Leroux, 1906), by Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mukanda wa Chiluba; mikanda wa cinina ne bwalu bwa fidi mukulo (Printed by Spottiswoode, 1899), by Samuel Phillips Verner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die äquatoriale Sprachfamilie in Central-Afrika. (In Commission bei F. Tempsky, 1889), by Friedrich Müller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Essai sur le peuple et la langue banda (région du Tchad) (J. André, 1904), by Georges Toqué (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Documents sur les langues de l'Oubangui-Chari. (E. Leroux, 1906), by Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Documents sur les langues de l'Oubangui-Chari. (E. Leroux, 1906), by Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Comparative Handbook of Congo Languages (1903), by Walter Henry Stapleton
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Method of Transliteration of the Proper Names of Scripture into Congo Languages (Lukolela: Baptist Missionary Society, 1910), by John Whitehead and Lilian Frederica Whitehead (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Kilolo-English vocabulary. (East London institute for home and foreign missions, 1891), by James B. Eddie and L. M. De Hailes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Congo : vocabulaire pratique; francais, anglais, zanzibarite (swahili), fiote, kibangi-irébou, mongo, bangalas (Bulens, 1894), by Charles Lemaire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transliteration of Bible proper names into Congo languages (Baptist Missionary Society, 1903), by John Whitehead, L. F. Whitehead, and Baptist Missionary Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Comparative handbook of Congo languages. (Yakusu, 1903), by Walter Henry Stapleton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Éthiopie méridionale (Quantin, Librairies-imprimeries réunies, 1890), by Jules Borelli (page images at HathiTrust)

• A comparative grammar of South African languages (Gregg International Publishers Ltd., 1862), by W. H. I. Bleek (page images at HathiTrust)

• The languages of West Africs ... (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., 1911), by Frederick William Hugh Migeod (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die mande-neger-sprachen psychologisch und phonetisch betrachtet (F. Dümmler, 1867), by Heymann Steinthal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liberia (Hutchinson & co., 1906), by Harry Johnston and O. Stapf (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Liberia (Dodd, Mead & company, 1906), by Harry Hamilton Johnston and O. Stapf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vocabularies of the Niger and Gold coast, West Africa. (Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1886), by Henry Johnson and J. G. Christaller (page images at HathiTrust)
• de nominum generibus (apud Adolphum Marcum, 1851), by W. H. I. Bleek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Language and folklore in West Africa. ([London, 1906), by Alice Werner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liberia (Hutchinson & Co., 1906), by Harry Johnston and O. Stapf (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Vocabulaire français-gbéa : précédé d'éléments de grammaire (P. Geunthner, 1911), by J. Calloc'h (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Congo français (P. Geuthner, 1911), by J. Calloc'h (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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