African Studies & African History

Information on South Africa's eleven offiicial languages. Translation sources, dictionaries, radio stations, links to related sites, maps. Hosts an online Northern Sotho) - English Dictionary. Origins of some South African place names as provided by David Joffe. Based in Pretoria, South Africa.

The African Language Materials Archive, or ALMA, is a multi-partner project focusing on the promotion and documentation of literature and literacy in the languages of Africa. It further serves to assist African language authors and publishers in publicizing and distributing their work.

A web dossier (a collection of documents about a person, event, or subject) ib Afrikaans literature and language since ca. 2000.

Project of Johannes Fabian and Vincent de Rooij of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam.

There are anywhere between 1,500 and 2,000 languages in Africa, most of which are still poorly documented. These webpages aim to simplify the finding of linguistic Africana on the net.