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African languages
      Titles Descriptions
  1. About.com: Africa for Visitors
  2. Africa Update
  3. Hausa Language
  4. Kamusi Project: Living Swahili Dictionary
  5. Languages of South Africa
  6. Noun Classification in Swahili
  7. Translation Dictionaries
  8. Travlang's Translating Dictionaries

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About.com: Africa for Visitors
Articles and features about travel in Africa, details of news and events, and a set of annotated links to related resources compiled by a subject specialist. Topics include adventure activities, city guides, ethnic villages, languages, and national parks.
     Author: About.com
     Subjects: african languages, african studies
     DeweyClass: 916
     Resource type: documents, index
Africa Update
Quarterly African studies newsletter containing articles on current issues such as female circumcision in Africa, democracy in Botswana and pan-African language patterns.
     Author: Central Connecticut State University
     Subjects: african languages, african studies
     DeweyClass: 960
     Resource type: news
Hausa Language
Introduction to the African language, Hausa, including its speakers (mainly Nigerians), grammar and listings of offline reference materials.
     Author: University of California Los Angeles
     Subjects: african languages
     DeweyClass: 496
     Resource type: document
Kamusi Project: Living Swahili Dictionary
A collaborative work by people all over the world working to establish new dictionaries of the Swahili language, both within Swahili and between Swahili and English.
     Author: Yale University
     Subjects: african languages
     DeweyClass: 496.392
     Resource type: dictionary
Languages of South Africa
Offers historical information, general vocabulary, a pronunciation guide, and a sample of text written in Afrikaans, English, IsiNdebele, IsiXhosa, IsiZulu, Northern Sotho (Sepedi), Sesotho, Setswana, SiSwati, Tshivenda, and Xitsonga.
     Author: Olivier, Jako
     Subjects: african languages
     DeweyClass: 496
     Resource type: guide
Noun Classification in Swahili
A guide to the semantics and syntax of noun classification in Swahili. Search facility provided.
     Author: Contini-Morava, Ellen
     Subjects: african languages
     DeweyClass: 496.392
     Resource type: guide
Translation Dictionaries
Collection of online dictionaries offering English translations from and to Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, and Swedish.
     Author: TierraNet
     Subjects: african languages, danish, dutch, finnish, french language, hungarian, indonesia, italian language, japanese, latin, norwegian, portuguese, russian language, spanish, swedish
     DeweyClass: 403
     Resource type: dictionaries
Travlang's Translating Dictionaries
Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Portuguese and Spanish dictionaries.
     Author: Travlang
     Subjects: african languages, danish, dutch, esperanto, finnish, french language, german language, italian language, latin, portuguese, reference, spanish, translating dictionaries
     DeweyClass: 403
     Resource type: dictionary collection