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• Africa, West
• Africa -- Languages
• Languages

• Atlantic languages
• Bambara language
• Fula language
• Gbe languages
• Grusi languages
• Hausa language
• Mande languages
• Mandekan languages
• Mandingo language
• Moore-Gurma languages
• Oti-Volta languages
• Western Mande languages
• Gambia -- Languages
• Ghana -- Languages
• Liberia -- Languages
• Nigeria -- Languages
• Sierra Leone -- Languages

• 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)

• Bolle Fulbe; manuel de la langue foule, parlée dans la Sénégambie et le Soudan; grammaire, textes, vocabulaire. (Librairie universitaire, 1894), by T. G. de Guiraudon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les préfixes nominaux dans les parlers peul, haoussa et bantous. (Institut d'ethnologie, 1929), by L. Homburger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Erzälungen in Fulfulde, niedergeschrieben von Abdallah Adam, transkribiert, übersetzt und mit einem Nachtrag: Erzählungen im Dialekt von Sokoto (G. Reimer, 1913), by Abdallah Adam and Diedrich Westermann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Observations on the Hausa and Fulfulde languages : with examples. (Printed for Private Circulation, 1861), by William Balfour Baikie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bolle Fulbe; manuel de la langue foule parlée dans la Sénégambie et le Soudan (H. Welter, 1894), by T. Grimal de Guiraudon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes de linguistique africaine : les Puls (E. Leroux, 1887), by Th Grimal de Guiraudon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grammaire et vocabulaire de la langue poul à l'usage des voyageurs dans le Soudan, avec une carte indiquant les contrées où se parle cette langue. (Maisonneuve, 1882), by Louis Léon César Faidherbe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bolle Fulbe; manuel de la langue foule parlée dans la Sénégambie et le Soudan (Welter, 1894), by T. G. de Guiraudon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fulani grammar (on sale at the Secretariat Stationary Store, 1919), by Sylvia Leith-Ross (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le poular : dialecte peul du Fouta sénégalais (E. Leroux, 1913), by Henri Gaden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Les Bambara du Ségou et du Kaarta; étude historique, ethnographique et littéraire d'une peuplade du Soudan Français. (Larose, 1924), by Charles Monteil (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essai sur la langue bambara, parlée dans le Kaarta et dans le Bélédougou, suivi d'un vocabulaire, avec une carte indiquant les contrées où se parle cette langue (Maisonneuve frères et C. LeClerc, 1886), by Louis Gustave Binger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur la langue bambara, parlée dans le Kaarta et dans le Bélédougou, suivi d'un vocabulaire, avec une carte indiquant les contrées où se parle cette langue (Maisonneuve frères et C. LeClerc, 1886), by Louis Gustave Binger and France. Ministère de la marine et des colonies (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Ewe-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa: The Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, Languages, &c. (London: Chapman and Hall, 1890), by A. B. Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dahomey and the Dahomans; being the journals of two missions to the king of Dahomey, and residence at his capital, in the year 1849 and 1850. (Longman, Brown, Green,and Longmans, 1851), by Frederick E. Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• E'we-German-English dictionary. (Keta, 1891), by J. Knuesli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sprichwörter der Ewhe-Neger (Gē-Dialekt). (Agome-Kpalime, 1870), by P. A. Witte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eẁe-German-English vocabulary (Keta, 1891), by J. Knüsli (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dahomey and the Dahomans; being the journals of two missions to the king of Dahomey, and residence at his capital, in the year 1849 and 1850. (Longman, Brown, Green,and Longmans, 1851), by Frederick E. Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuel dahoméen; grammaire, chrestomathie, dictionnaire français-dahoméen et dahoméen-français. (E. Leroux, 1894), by Maurice Delafosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Etablissements français du golfe de Bénin. (L. Baudoin, 1889), by Alexandre L. d' Albéca (page images at HathiTrust)

• Les préfixes nominaux dans les parlers peul, haoussa et bantous. (Institut d'ethnologie, 1929), by L. Homburger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Manuel pratique de langue Haoussa, langue commerciale du Soudan, avec exercices gradués, suivi d'une chrestomatie analysée, d'une collection de phrases usuelles, d'un vocabulaire Haoussa-Français et d'un vocabulaire systématique. (E. Leroux, 1895), by Adolf Dirr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hausa stories and riddles, with notes on the language etc., and a concise Hausa dictionary. (Mendip Press, 1908), by Hermann Gundert Harris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vocabulary of the Haussa language. Part I.--English and Haussa. Part II.--Haussa and English. And phrases, and specimens of translations. To which are prefixed, the grammatical elements of the Haussa language. (Printed for the Church Missionary Society, 1843), by James Frederick Schön (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the Hausa and Fulfulde languages : with examples. (Printed for Private Circulation, 1861), by William Balfour Baikie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hausa proverbs. (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd., 1905), by George Charleton Merrick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hausa notes (C.M.S. Bookshop, 1922), by Walter Richard Samuel Miller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die sprache der Haussa in Zentralafrika (D. Reimer (E. Vohsen), 1911), by Diedrich Westermann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Niger and the West Sudan : or the West African's note book : (Hodder & Stoughton, 1910), by A. J. N. Tremearne (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Dialects of Mandekan (Indiana Univ., Bloomington, Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies, 1981), by Charles S. Bird, United States. Office of Postsecondary Education. Office of International Education, and Bloomington. Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies Indiana University (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Mende language, containing useful phrases, elementary grammar, short vocabularies, reading materials (K. Paul, Trench, Trüber & co., ltd., 1908), by Frederick William Hugh Migeod (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai de manuel pratique de la langue mandé ou mandingue : étude grammaticale du dialecte dyoula, vocabulaire français-dyoula, histoire de Samori en Mandé, étude comparée des principaux dialectes mandé. (E. Leroux, 1901), by Maurice Delafosse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Etude sur la langue des Mossi : (boucle du Niger) (E. Leroux, 1910), by Fernand Froger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A voyage to Africa: including a narrative of an embassy to one of the interior kingdoms, in the year 1820; with remarks on the course and termination of the Niger, and other principal rivers in that country. (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821), by William Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of an investigation of some Gold Coast language problems. (Pub. on behalf of the Government Gold Coast by the Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1945), by Ida C. Ward (page images at HathiTrust)

• A dictionary of the Grebo language (E.O. Jenkins, 1860), by John Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The languages of Liberia. (Hutchinson & Co., 1906), by Harry Hamilton Johnston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The English language in Liberia : the annual address before the citizens of Maryland County, Cape Palmas, Liberia--July 26, 1860 : being the day of national independence (New York : Bunce & Co., printers, 1861., 1861), by Alexander Crummell (page images at HathiTrust)

• The peoples of Southern Nigeria; a sketch of their history, ethnology and languages, with an abstract of the 1921 census (Oxford university press, H. Milford, 1926), by Percy Amaury Talbot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of languages from South Nigeria (Harrison, 1914), by Northcote Whitridge Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of languages from southern Nigeria. (Harrison, 1914), by Northcote Whitridge Thomas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 42 vocabularies of languages spoken in Bauchi Province, N. Nigeria. (National Archives, 1907), by W. F. Gowers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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