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	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.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565449/African_Languages.html (1767 words)

	List of Languages
		Language of the Caucasus mountains in the Russian autonomous republic of Karachay-Cherkessia by the Abazins.
		Is a Visayan language spoken in Aklan province in the Philippines.
		Is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara of the Andes.
	www.aboutlanguageschools.com /language/list (4777 words)

	Kwa languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kwa languages are spoken in the south-eastern part of Côte d'Ivoire, in Ghana, Togo and Benin, and the southwestern corner of Nigeria.
		The Kwa group of languages is a branch of Volta-Congo and ultimately Niger-Congo.
		Bennett and Sterk (1977) argued that Kwa in its original form was not a genetic unit, and proposed a reclassification in which the Yoruboid and Igboid languages are members of the Benue-Congo subfamily.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kwa (248 words)

	bantu
		The Kwa languages are found in a strip along the west coast of Africa from southeastern Nigeria to Liberia.
		North of the Kwa language region, extending from western Nigeria into much of Côte d'Ivoire and Mali, are the languages of the Gur branch, including Moré (or Mooré), Bariba, and Gurma.
		The Ijoid languages, spoken in the Niger delta, have proved difficult to classify, as have the Dogon languages, spoken in northeast Mali.
	members.tripod.com /~CoteA/bantu.html (535 words)

	African languages - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		These languages are spoken in all parts of the continent, from the extreme south up to the territory of the Afroasiatic languages of N Africa.
		The Kwa languages, spoken chiefly in Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Nigeria, and Liberia, include Ewe, Yoruba, Igbo, Nupe, Bini, Ashanti, and possibly Ijo (which is sometimes considered a separate branch).
		Swahili, a Bantu tongue of the Niger-Kordofanian stock, was written before the European conquest of Africa (see Swahili language), and Vai, a language belonging to the Mande subdivision of Niger-Congo, employs an indigenous script developed in the 19th cent.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-africanlng.html (1565 words)

	OHCHR: Swahili/Kiswahili () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kwa kuwa kukiri heshima ya asili na haki sawa kwa binadamu wote ndio msingi wa uhuru, haki na amani duniani,
		Kwa kuwa kutojali na kudharau haki za binadamu kumeletea vitendo vya kishenzi ambavyo vimeharibu dhamiri ya binadamu na kwa sababu taarifa ya ulimwengu ambayo itawafanya binadamu wafurahie uhuru wao wa kusema, kusadiki na wa kutoogopa cho chote imekwisha kutangazwa kwamba ndio hamu kuu ya watu wote,
		Juu ya hayo usifanye ubaguzi kwa kutegemea siasa, utawala au kwa kutegemea uhusiano wa nchi fulani na mataifa mengine au nchi ya asili ya mtu, haidhuru nchi hiyo iwe inayojitawala, ya udhamini, isiyojitawala au inayotawaliwa na nchi nyingine kwa hali ya namna yo yote.
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/swa.htm (1835 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Gur & Kwa
		You have reached the page on the Gur and Kwa sub-branches of the Niger-Kordofanian language family, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana.
		Gur and Kwa are two of the sub-branches of the Western Sudanic sub-branch of the Niger- Congo branch of the Niger-Kordofanian family of languages.
		Yoruba is spoken in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo; it is one of the 4 national languages of Nigeria.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/gurkwah.htm (1177 words)

	CREOLIZATION IS A SOCIAL, NOT A STRUCTURAL, PROCESS
		Even in contact communities such as 17th- and 18th-century Surinam, language seems to have been transmitted normally from one group of speakers to another (Mufwene 1998a), in conditions where the local vernacular was of course diffuse (in the sense of LePage and Tabouret-Keller 1985) and changing gradually (Arends 1989).
		Where contact among languages is also involved, the pool of features in competition becomes larger, but the mechanisms of competition and selection remain the same, operating still at the level of interacting individuals before impacting the speech or language community.
		However, whether they are treated as dialects of their lexifiers or as separate languages should not really concern us that much, because this distinction changes nothing to the nature of structural questions we address, certainly not about the kind of restructuring that produced them nor about their undeniable genetic ties with their lexifiers.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /faculty/mufwene/mufw_creo.html (6746 words)

	Web resources for Kwa languages
		There are some 40-60 Kwa languages spoken in West Africa.
		Note that a number of languages that used to be classified as Kwa languages, e.g.
		Rhythm in West African tone languages: a study of Ibibio, Anyi and Ega (PDF).
	goto.glocalnet.net /maho/webresources/kwa.html (1231 words)

	Ghana - Language Diversity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although Fante-Twi (a major Akan language), Ga, and Ewe are the most important Kwa languages spoken in the south, three subdivisions of the Gur branch--Mole-Dagbane, Grusi, and Gurma-- dominate the northern region.
		Hausa, a language of northern Nigeria which spread throughout West Africa through trade, is also understood by some inhabitants in the northeastern part of the country.
		The principal written Ghanaian languages are the Twi dialects of Asante, Akwapim, and Fante.
	countrystudies.us /ghana/38.htm (340 words)

	2005 LSA Institute - People - Aboh
		Enoch Aboh is a researcher at the University of Amsterdam with appointments in the Department of Linguistics and the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication.
		His research interests include the (micro)comparative syntax of Kwa languages and the Atlantic creoles, in parallel with the (macro)comparative syntax of Kwa, Germanic, and Romance.
		The structural relationship between the Gbe-languages of West Africa and the Suriname Creole languages," which aimed to identify and account for potential structural relationships between the Surinamese Creoles and the Gbe languages (Kwa).
	web.mit.edu /lsa2005/people/bios/aboh.html (234 words)

	"NATAMANI KIPINDUPINDU KIFIKE IKULU" - MWANABLOGU IDYA
		Mapinduzi haya faida zake kwa nchi kama zetu unaweza usizione lakini ukiwa unatazama mbali na una uwezo wa kuona "picha kamili" utajua kuwa mapinduzi haya yatabadili mambo katika nchi zetu kwa kiasi kikubwa.
		Kwa miaka mingi magazeti yamekuwa ni chombo cha habari cha mstari mmoja ulioonyooka ambapo habari, maarifa, na elimu vinatoka katika vyombo hivyo na kwenda kwa wasomaji.
		Wala usiape kwa kichwa chako, maana huwezi kuufanya hata unywele mmoja kuwa mweupe au mweusi.
	jikomboe.blogspot.com (2617 words)

	E-MELD - Project Goals
		It is an isolating language, and the morphology is minimal, consisting only of a dual/plural distinction in personal pronouns, complex serial verb constructions, and a set of numeral classifiers.
		Mocoví is a Guaicuruan language from northern Argentina, with between 4000 and 7000 speakers.
		Monguor is a Southeastern Mongolic language spoken in the People's Republic of China in the Qinghai province (primarily Huzhu, Datong, Ledu, Minhe, and Tongren counties) and the Gansu province (primarily Tianzhu county, and also Dahejia county).
	emeld.org /goals/languages.cfm (1161 words)

	Korean Women's Association (KWA): Information
		KWA does not discriminate against anyone because of color, race, religion, sex, natural origin, handicap or veteran status.
		KWA is a registered nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization established in 1972 to provide services to Korean wives of American servicemen.
		Today, KWA offers a multi-faceted program of services tailored to minority populations, yet available to all in Pierce, King, Lewis, Mason and Thurston Counties.
	www.kwaoutreach.org /information.html (268 words)

	Verbix -- Creole languages: conjugate Jamaican verbs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jamaican is an English-based creole language spoken in Jamaica.
		Among the African languages Kwa, Manding and Kru have to be mentioned.
		The influence of Early Modern English to the Caribbean was brought by sailors, soldiers, indentured servants, convicts, and settlers (lower-class whites) in the form of regional and non-standard dialects, highly conservative for the most part.
	www.verbix.com /languages/jamaican.shtml (115 words)

	Linguistics Program - University of Florida
		Helene Blondeau (Ph.D. Montreal) is a linguist in the Romance Languages and Literatures department.
		Andrea Pham (Ph.D. University of Toronto) is a linguist in the department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures.
		Her current interests involve Japanese language and culture, the history of linguistics, language in Japanese society, and the origins of linguistics in Japan.
	web.lin.ufl.edu /faculty.html (1035 words)

	Ivory Coast - Language Diversity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		French is the official language and is used throughout the country, but linguistic diversity still reflects the ethnographic mosaic of its peoples.
		Language areas correspond closely, but not exactly, to the four cultural regions of the nation.
		Agni and Baoulé, both Kwa languages and to some extent mutually intelligible, are the most widely spoken languages in the south.
	countrystudies.us /ivory-coast/21.htm (236 words)

	AFRICA.Arena \| SOCIETY
		African languages are supposed to have one or two origins according to linguists, attested by the existence of a common lexical stock and other structural traitss not totally represented in any single language but in many topological diversity.
		The Adamawa-Eastern branch, to which Banda, Zande, and Sango belong, is composed of a number of languages spoken in Nigeria, Cameroon, and an area north of the Bantu territory to Sudan.A characteristic feature of most of the Niger-Congo languages is the use of tones.
		As the chief trade language of E Africa, it is understood by perhaps an additional 20 million.
	web.1asphost.com /siyanbola/Africa/afrmap3b.htm (1681 words)

	LG449, Out of Africa: Pidgins and Creoles as National Languages (Peter L Patrick, Univ of Essex)
		Sango, a contact language based on Ngbandi, had about 350,000 native speakers in the 1988 census, making it perhaps the most widely-spoken native language; it is used as a second language by almost the entire population, and by some people in neighboring nations (so, c.5 million).
		All indigenous languages within PNG are designated “national” by the Constitution, and allowed to be used in local education.
		English is the official language and the language of school instruction.
	courses.essex.ac.uk /lg/lg449/PCsAsNationalLanguages.htm (1091 words)

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		The language of the Ethiopian church liturgy, Gecez, gave rise to the Semitic cluster of languages, Amharic, Tigrinya, and Tigre.
		Of the Semitic languages, Arabic was carried beyond its original home in the Arabian Peninsula and spread throughout the Arabian Empire and is spoken across North Africa to the Atlantic coast, and Arabic and Hebrew are used by Muslims and Jews in other parts of the world.
		The Kordofanian languages, found in the Nuba Hills of Kordofan, are related by similarities between their pronominal forms, particularly in the independent pronouns of the singular, and in the noun prefix system.
	web.syr.edu /~mdlattim/e_dox/africa/lang_African.html (6785 words)

	Salikoko Mufwene: Pidgin and Creole Languages
		Strictly speaking, PCs are new language varieties, which developed out of contacts between colonial nonstandard varieties of a European language and several non-European languages around the Atlantic and in the Indian and Pacific Oceans during the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.
		The notion of `ecology' includes, among other things, the nature of the lexifier, structural features of the substrate languages, changes in the ethnolinguistic makeup of the populations that came in contact, the kinds of interactions between speakers of the lexifier and those of other languages, and rates and modes of population growth.
		For instance, Adolfo Coelho (1880±1886) partly anticipated Bickerton's (1984) `language bioprogram hypothesis' in stating that Creoles' owe their origin to the operation of psychological or physiological laws that are the same everywhere, and not to the influence of the former languages of the people among whom these dialects are found.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /faculty/mufwene/pidginCreoleLanguage.html (3599 words)

	Linguistics and Dialect Speakers: Educational CyberPlayGround
		Kwa is not a language but a large cluster of more than one hundred languages spoken in south of Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria.
		English Language of Instruction - English is NOT a TONAL LANGUAGE In accordance with Ghana’s government policy teachers, administrators, and students are compulsorily required to use English as their sole medium of communication in school.
		Chinook Jargon, not to be confused with the native American language Chinook, was a pidgin used by traders in the American Northwest with Chinook, Nootka, English, and French at its core.
	www.cyberpg.com /Literacy/aboutdialect.asp (3361 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages.
		Venetan language (materials for compiling a descriptive grammar were provided by Michele Brunelli), together with a map of The region of Veneto.
		The language is Ega, the most westerly of the Kwa languages, spoken in Ivory Coast, in West Africa.
		Although assigned to the Kwa family, Ega is surrounded by speakers of the Dida language of the Kru family.
	www.ogmios.org /179.htm (1134 words)

	Ethnologue report for Côte d'Ivoire
		Of those, 78 are living languages and 2 are extinct.
		Between Kulango and Abron to the north; Nzema, Abure, and the Lagoon languages to the south; Baulé to the west; Twi in Ghana to the east.
		Dialects: Related to Jogo (Ligbi) of Ghana and Tongon, an extinct flsmith language of the Djimini Senoufo.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=CI (1951 words)

	Yoruba Dictionary, Yoruba Learn, Yoruba Software - Mac, Yoruba Software - Windows, Yoruba Fonts, Yoruba Kids\|Children ...
		Yoruba, with the stress on the first syllable, is one of the major languages of Nigeria.
		It is spoken in the southwestern part of the country, in the region whose principal city is Ibadan.
		Yoruba is one of the Kwa languages, which form a subgroup of the Niger-Congo family.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Yoruba.htm (189 words)

	Publications
		Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 22:2 pp229-267.
		Essegbey, J. Auxiliaries in serialising languages: on COME and GO verbs in Sranan and Ewe.
		Essegbey, J. and Ameka, F. (submitted) Serialising languages: satellite-framed, verb-framed or neither.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/essegbey/Publications.html (495 words)

	Kwa - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Kwa : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		noun: a group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria
		Phrases that include Kwa: kwa language, kwa languages, kwa niewski aleksander, kwa zulu natal, national convergence kwa na kwa, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=Kwa (146 words)

	Linguistic Exploration: Gibbon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Initially, the Kwa languages are being focussed on, in particular the closely related langauges Baule and Anyi.
		General computational principles suggest that this is an overly concrete level of representation and that a more generic and standardisable platform-neutral transcription format, such as the X-SAMPA machine-readable (ASCII) IPA coding, is more suitable, with conversion to reader-friendly fonts at a post-processor stage.
		We have developed X-SAMPA encodings for Bete (Kru) and Abbey (Kwa), and by the end of the project will have codings for the other languages currently being treated.
	www.ldc.upenn.edu /exploration/LSA/gibbon.html (255 words)

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