ABSTRACT

Volume 1 of African Languages include articles originally published in 1975 and written in French and English on educational, literary, cultural, historical and socio-linguistic aspects of language in Africa, as well as descriptive and comparative studies. Among others there are chapters on African oral literature, the standardization of languages and education in Nigeria and a description of Shona spelling.

chapter |28 pages

‘Pakao Book’

An Introduction to Pakao Expansion and Social Structure by Virtue of an Indigenous Manuscript

chapter |39 pages

Jarawan Bantu

chapter |41 pages

La variabilité lexicale en bantou

chapter |1 pages

Studies devoted to S.W. Koelle's

Polyglotta Africana