Multi Linguis offers you small survival dictionaries of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Each of them includes up to 999 elementary words and phrases. The entries are arranged by parts of speech and then ...

In the post yesterday I reported what was generally known about the Horn of Africa, that its populations seem to lie between those of Sub-Saharan African and Eurasia genetically. This is totally ...

Types of Language Families: Language is the core tool humans use to share ideas, emotions, and culture. Linguists group individual languages into “families” based on shared ancestry, similar to a ...

13:31, Tue, Sep 17, 2024 Updated: 13:35, Tue, Sep 17, 2024 Ongota is a language belonging to the Afro-Asiatic family and is spoken by the Ongota hunter-gatherer community, which is based in a small ...

At an Afroasiatic languages conference (AfAf 2) held in Paris this month, one fifth of the talks given were by members of our Linguistics Department: Prof. Emerita Hagit Borer, Prof. Daniel Harbour, ...

We are all familiar with the popular ones, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Efik, Ibibio, Edo etc, but the vast majority of our languages, we have not even heard of and some we will never hear of. We are all ...

The Department is pleased to announce that Ph.D. alumna Erin Shay has just published (2021, with Brill): A Grammar of Giziga: A Chadic Language of Far North Cameroon. This is the first broad, detailed ...