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	AFRICAN LANGUAGES,
		Languages of the Berber branch of the Hamito-Semitic family are spoken by a substantial portion of the population of Morocco, Algiers, and Tunisia; by scattered groups elsewhere in North Africa; and along the southern fringes of the Sahara Desert in western Africa.
		Languages of the Chari-Nile branch are spoken in the northern part of Chad, in the Sudan, in much of Uganda and Kenya, and in the northeastern corner of the Congo Republic.
		The Nubian alphabet was derived from that of the Coptic language.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=200355 (3256 words)

	African Languages - MSN Encarta
		Languages in the Mande subgroup are spoken in Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
		Bambara, spoken in Mali, is the principal language in this subgroup.
		Languages of the Adamawa East subgroup are spoken in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), and the Central African Republic.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565449/African_Languages.html (1766 words)

	Chadic languages
		The Chadic languages are a member of the Afroasiatic phylum, together with Semitic, Ancient Egyptian, Berber and Cushitic.
		Chadic languages are spoken mostly in the Chad Republic, Northern Cameroon and Northern Nigeria.
		Languages of the Chadic family make up for about 25% of the total number of languages spoken in Nigeria.
	www.uiowa.edu /intlinet/unijos/nigonnet/nlp/chadic.htm (197 words)

	Chadic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chadic languages constitute a language family spoken across northern Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Central African Republic and Cameroon, belonging to the Afro-Asiatic phylum.
		The most widely spoken Chadic language is Hausa, the lingua franca of much of West Africa.
		Newman, Paul (1977) 'Chadic classification and reconstructions.' Afroasiatic Linguistics 5, 1, 1–42.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chadic_languages (191 words)

	Chad - Afro-Asiatic Languages
		Chadic languages stretch from the western borders of Nigeria to Ouaddaï Prefecture, and Arabic-speaking populations are scattered throughout the Sahel.
		The peculiar east-west distribution of Chadic along the southern fringe of the Sahara from western Nigeria to eastern Chad has led some experts to suggest that ancestral Chadic languages were spoken by peoples living along the southern shores of the Paleochadian Sea.
		In the second cluster, Chadic speakers are descended from refugee populations who perhaps sought shelter in the highlands when the contraction of the sea and the increased aridity of the region allowed the penetration of more aggressive herding populations.
	countrystudies.us /chad/20.htm (1410 words)

	Afro-Asiatic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tonal languages appear in the Omotic, Chadic, and South and East Cushitic branches of Afro-Asiatic, according to Ehret (1996).
		Marcel Cohen (1924) rejected the idea of a distinct "Hamitic" subgroup, and included Hausa (a Chadic language) in his comparative Hamito-Semitic vocabulary.
		Joseph Greenberg (1950) strongly confirmed Cohen's rejection of "Hamitic", added (and sub-classified) the Chadic languages, and proposed the new name Afro-Asiatic for the family; almost all scholars accepted his classification.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afro-Asiatic_languages (1243 words)

	Chadic Branch
		The Chadic branch consists of about 150 languages spoken south of the Sahara desert and stretching from the south of Niger, across northern Nigeria, northern Cameroon and south-central Chad.
		As you can see, the most populous language is Hausa, a West Chadic language spoken by up to 25 million people, of whom about 19 million live in Nigeria, 5 million in Niger, and 1 million in Cameroon, Togo, and Benin.
		Chadic languages are distinguished by the presence of
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/july/chadic.html (418 words)

	A crosslinguistic lexicon of the labial flap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Chadic languages are marked in grey, Benue-Congo in dark yellow, Adamawa in green, Ubangi in teal, West Central Sudanic in red, and East Central Sudanic in violet.
		The labial flap is attested in fourteen Chadic languages.
		The labial flap is attested in one Platoid language.
	journals.dartmouth.edu /webobjbin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/1/xmlpage/1/article/262?htmlAlways=yes (2901 words)

	Afroasiatic languages. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		According to one theory, the languages of the Afroasiatic family are thought to have first been spoken along the shores of the Red Sea.
		The writings in Ugaritic are important in the study of the Hebrew language and biblical literature of the early period.
		The Omotic languages were formerly classified with the Cushitic and are spoken by perhaps 3 million people who live in SW Ethiopia in the Omo River region.
	www.bartleby.com /65/af/Afroasia.html (2033 words)

	Nigeriaworld Feature Article - Ethnic Minorities, Justice and Languages
		Some minorities whose languages are treated with utmost contemptment hold the country with oil, from which an almost mono-economic Nigeria thrives and achieves international recognition in a world swarmed by its battered image of 419 and established corruption.
		Every language must be accorded a sense of health; allowed equal access and importance in the running of government, presented to the world in equal measure as well as other protocols the use of languages espouses in modern life.
		He laments the inactivity of many languages and predicts a bleak future: 'Many languages are no longer actively spoken by the younger members of the language community.
	nigeriaworld.com /cgi-bin/axs/ax.pl?http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2007/jan/251.html (1231 words)

	Studies in Chadic Morphology and Syntax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Chadic languages are the largest and the most diversified branch of the Afroasiatic family.
		Among the issues discussed in the volume are the underlying forms of verbs in West Chadic, nominal and verbal plurality, ergative characteristics, coding of grammatical relations in proto-Chadic, double coding of the subject (also known as «intransitive copy pronouns»).
		The volume concludes with a discussion of the implications of Chadic for the theory and methodology of diachronic syntax.
	www.peeters-leuven.be /boekoverz.asp?nr=7446 (150 words)

	SOAS: SOAS Events: Open Inaugural lecture by Professor Philip Jaggar
		The diverse nature of the extant linguistic material and the numbers of distinct languages in these families suggest that the source proto-language was spoken perhaps as many as 15,000 years ago, probably in northeast Africa (an area with many diverse Afroasiatic languages/groups in close geographic proximity, often a reliable indication of linguistic geographic origin).
		Chadic languages are found to the east, south and west of Lake Chad in west Africa.
		Even though the modern AA languages display differences at all levels and are geographically distant, the obvious similarities can only be reasonably explained by a historical/genetic hypothesis, i.e., we are dealing with true cognation resulting from common inheritance (and not correspondences attributable to chance, contact-induced borrowing, areal diffusion, etc.).
	www.soas.ac.uk /events/eventsdetail.cfm?eventid=3572 (703 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages. Home
		This attitude is brought to Austria together with the language of the country of origin and is confronted with the new majority's language German, and its social norms.
		The "imported language" is not the ethnic language.
		The language of the country of origin has taken the basilectal function (that Armenian should have) and is mostly the more emotional language or the language first acquired.
	www.ogmios.org /45.htm (2883 words)

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		A Grammar of the Lamang Language (Gwàd Làmàn).
		On the Grammaticalization of Verbal Plurality in Chadic.
		Consonant-Tone Interference in Chadic and its Implications for a Theory of Tonogenesis in Afroasiatic.
	www2.uni-leipzig.de /~afrika/pages/ifa/show.php?aid=89 (1605 words)

	abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The reconstruction in this study is based on data from twenty-one languages across the four branches of the Chadic language family.
		Among the four branches of Chadic languages, there are basically two types of syntactic structures in the complement clauses of the verbs of wanting.
		The choice of the two structures appears to be overwhelmingly affected by the referential status of the grammatical subjects in the main clause and the complement clause.
	www.ohiou.edu /alta/tao.htm (187 words)

	Chadic languages . Niger . Hausa language . Biu-Mandara languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Chadic languages are a language family spoken across northern Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Central African Republic and Cameroon, belonging to the Afro-Asiatic_languages Afro-Asiatic phylum.
		The most widely spoken Chadic language is Hausa language Hausa, the lingua franca of much of West Africa.
		The Biu-Mandara languages include 79 SIL estimate languages and dialects spoken in Africa and western Asia; this language group is a part of the List of Chadic languages...
	www.uk.fraquisanto.net /Chadic_languages (338 words)

	East Chadic languages . Africa . List of "A" East Chadic languages . Asia
		dialects spoken in Africa and western Asia; this language group is a part of the List of Chadic languages Chadic language family.
		Currently, the subgroups of the East Chadic language group are technically identified by letters.
		Chadic languages include 17 SIL estimate languages and dialects spoken in Africa and western Asia; this language group is a part of the List of East Chadic languages East Chadic language family.
	www.uk.kunsimuna.net /East_Chadic_languages_UK_973799_zh (258 words)

	Sonderforschungsbereich 632: Information structure - Projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As tonal languages, the Chadic languages form an interesting subject for research into focus because a commonly used means for marking focus in indogermanic languages, namely intonational/ tonal marking, is not available in the same degree due to potential conflicts with lexical tone.
		As a result, Chadic languages often resort to alternative means for marking focus.
		Nigeria: Joint linguistic colloquium of the Department of Languages and Literature and the Department of English, University of Maiduguri.
	www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de /projects.php?project_name=B2 (806 words)

	Hamitic languages - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Hamitic languages subfamily of the Hamito-Semitic family of languages, a now-abandoned system of classification for languages of N Africa and SW Asia.
		The Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, and (sometimes) Chadic languages were formerly classified as Hamitic languages.
		Issues of language maintenance and education of aboriginal children in India: an interview with Ajit K. Mohanty, internationally acclaimed Indian psycholinguist.(Interview)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-ix-hamiticl.html (179 words)

	The Tamazight (Berber) language profile, par Karim Achab.
		Tamazight belongs to the African branch of the Afro-Asian language family, also referred to as Hamito-Semitic in the literature, along with ancient Egyptian and other African languages such as the ones called Cuchitic and Chadic languages, as opposed to the oriental or Semitic branch constituted of semitic languages.
		The question as to whether these languages started in Africa or the Middle East along with the Semitic languages is still controversial and goes beyond the field of linguistics since it involves archaeology, as well as pre-history and paleontology.
		Given the similarities, the possibility that the substrata of these languages are African with an important eastern influence from Semitic languages is the most plausible, although a western influence of Semitic languages from the African branch, namely Egyptian, is not to be excluded.
	isegh.tripod.com /the_tamazight_language_profile_karimachab.htm (2973 words)

	Hamito-Semitic Africa; Semites of Africa II \| Rasta Livewire
		Hamito-Semitic languages are a family of languages spoken by more than 200 million people in N Africa; much of the Sahara; parts of East, Central, West Africa; and W Asia (especially the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel).
		The languages of the Hamito-Semitic family are thought to have first been spoken along the shores of the Red Sea coast of Africa.
		The Canaanite languages are supposedly Phoenician, Moabite, Ugaritic, and Hebrew.
	www.africaresource.com /rasta/2006/04/10/hamito-semitic-africa-semites-of-africa-ii (1796 words)

	University Graduate School Bulletin 2000-2002: Linguistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Reading knowledge of one foreign language approved by the department and knowledge of the structure of a language or languages other than English and outside the student’s general language family.
		Three languages: (1) reading or speaking knowledge of two foreign languages, one of which should be either French, German, or Russian; and (2) knowledge of the structure of a language or languages other than English and outside the student’s general language family (choice to be determined in consultation with the student’s advisory committee).
		Three languages: (1) proficiency in two foreign languages, one of which must be an African language and the other normally French or German; and (2) knowledge of the structure of a foreign language or language group other than Romance or Germanic.
	www.indiana.edu /~bulletin/iub/grad/2000-2002/ling.html (2068 words)

	HRELP - Birgit Hellwig
		Birgit Hellwig is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP), where she is working on Goemai, a previously undescribed West Chadic language of Central Nigeria.
		She has been working on Chadic languages since 1998; her MA thesis focused on language contact between Chadic and Benue Congo languages; and her PhD thesis investigated in detail the grammatical, semantic and pragmatic aspects of how postural information is coded in one Chadic language (Goemai).
		Her main research interests lie in lexical semantics, in the relationship between language and cognition, and in various aspects of language documentation, in particular: field methodology, the integration of semantics into grammar writing, and in the technological side of documentation.
	www.hrelp.org /aboutus/staff/index.php?cd=bh (403 words)

	The sci.lang FAQ: 8
		A language family is a group of languages that have been proven to have descended from a common ancestral language.
		All the Germanic languages have a common ancestor, Proto-Germanic; farther back, this ancestor was descended from Proto-Indo- European, as were the ancestors of the Italic, Slavic, and other branches.
		LANGUAGE ISOLATES: A number of languages around the world have never been successfully shown to be related to any others-- in at least some cases because any related languages have long been extinct.
	www.zompist.com /lang8.html (939 words)

	Ethnologue report for Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Of those, 510 are living languages, 2 are second language without mother-tongue speakers, and 9 are extinct.
		Spoken as a second language in the northern half of Nigeria.
		A separate language in the Igbo language cluster.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Nigeria (6114 words)

	UCB Libraries \| Collection Development \| III. Policies: Linguistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, its structure and its diversity, how children learn it and how adults produce and understand it, how social practices shape and are shaped by it.
		Bibliographer for Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures is Sean Knowlton.
		Bibliographer for Asian Languages and Literatures is Tomiko Dobson.
	ucblibraries.colorado.edu /collectiondevelopment/linguistics.htm (526 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages Issue 23.
		The Panawa (Bujiyel) language forms part of the ‘Jere cluster’ and is in turn part of the Northern Jos group of the East Kainji languages spoken north of the town of Jos in Central Nigeria.
		The Tunzu (Duguza) language is an East Kainji language spoken northeast of Jos town in Central Nigeria.
		Those among the Dass (a Chadic language, unrelated to Tunzu) have preserved their cultural identity and have recently made efforts to send their children to live among the Tunzu so that they will learn the language.
	www.ogmios.org /236.htm (2154 words)

	Afro-Asiatic Languages
		As the name suggests, Afro-Asiatic languages are spoken in Africa and Asia, although no further east than the Arabian peninsula.
		Berber-- several languages of north Africa, usually all referred to as Berber.
		Chadic-- several languages of Nigeria and west Africa, including Hausa.
	www.mit.edu /~ejhanna/language/afroasia.html (92 words)

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