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Practical Orthography of African Languages - International African Institute (Paperback)
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Practical Orthography of African Languages - International African Institute (Paperback)
Series: Linguistic Surveys of Africa
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The first edition of the Practical Orthography of African Languages
was a best-seller and this and the following volume re-issues the
second edition, in English and French. Originally published in
1930, it provided an invaluable solution to the problem of finding
a practical and uniform method of writing African languages. The
volume is bound with a small pamphlet which analyses the
information on the Semitic and cushitic languages of Eritrea,
Ethiopia and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Related languages are
grouped together into larger sections which have some linguistic
significance. A further pamphlet, the Distribution of the Nilotic
and Nilo-Hamitic Languages of Africa, describes the relationship
between languages and dialects. For each language, data are given
on locality, number of speakers, use for educational and religious
purposes and the extent of vernacular literature. The linguistic
material is set out in phonetic script with tone marks, though
reference is made to current standard orthoraphies where these
exist.
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