African Auxiliary Languages

Descriptive and Theoretical Approaches to African Linguistics contains a selection of revised and peer-reviewed papers from the 49th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at Michigan State University in 2018. The contributions from both students and more senior scholars, based in North America, Africa and other parts of the world, provide a glimpse of the breadth and quality of current research in African linguistics from both descriptive and theoretical perspectives. Fields of interest range from phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics to sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, discourse analysis, language documentation, computational linguistics and beyond. The articles reflect both the typological and genetic diversity of languages in Africa and the wide range of research areas covered by presenters at ACAL conferences.

Harrison has since studied Indigenous languages in other parts of the world — from the Pacific islands of Vanuatu to the highlands of Vietnam — and learned that many of them are nature-centric in this way, reflecting millennia of deep observation of the natural world. Scholars increasingly recognize that many of these tongues encode much knowledge about the world’s species and ecosystems that is unknown to Western science — knowledge, Harrison argues, that may prove critical to protecting nature amid a global extinction crisis.

Not very sure how this is convincing as it is spoken by one country (and its diaspora). Hausa/Kikongo/Kanuri are spoken across more regions and may be seen as more inclusive than Amharic which has its own imperial baggage in Ethiopia. This is not to say that it is off. It is actually a language I love. Very rich in its expressions.

There are many indigenous languages in Africa with millions of speakers as native or second languages. Among them, Amharic stands next only to Arabic in the number of speakers. Amharic is now being used by diverse communities across the world. Most notably Ethiopian diaspora community that are estimated at over 5 million use it in their respective countries of residence.

Dear friends, You are all invited to join us in this 2024 Guosa Language weekly free classes. It is always an awesome/amazing experience together as we learn !

Date: Sunday Jan. 21st, 2024
Time: Nigeria time 8pm , Los Angeles time 11am

Meeting Link : https://meet.google.com/nnm-uezw-ram?pli=1

Let's make it a date tomorrow Sunday @ 8:pm Nigerian time, via the above link, don't forget.

Come and let's learn the language of unity, oneness and peace. Together we will make Africa proud, Nigeria in particular and the world at large.

Guosa's dictionary is now available for purchase on Amazon.

Ńdébé is a modern writing system for the Ìgbò language, invented in 2009 by Lotanna Igwe-Odunze

https://typendebe.com/

Fewer than 10 elders speak Yakunte, a language native to Kenya’s Yaaku people that the UN has classified as ‘extinct’.