Practice of Historical Linguistics and Language Codification in Africa
The sheer number of languages in Africa is remarkable; more than 2000 languages are believed to be alive in the continent. Today one can read a newspaper in Swahili, a novel in Gikuyu, or surf the Web in Yoruba. This article offers a diachronic perspective on the scholarly activities that have contr...
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| Vydáno v: | History compass Ročník 6; číslo 1; s. 1 - 24 |
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| Médium: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Oxford, UK
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
01.01.2008
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| ISSN: | 1478-0542, 1478-0542 |
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| Shrnutí: | The sheer number of languages in Africa is remarkable; more than 2000 languages are believed to be alive in the continent. Today one can read a newspaper in Swahili, a novel in Gikuyu, or surf the Web in Yoruba. This article offers a diachronic perspective on the scholarly activities that have contributed to the codification, documentation, classification, and description of African languages. It discusses the ideology and methods underlying the practice of historical linguistics in Africa prior to the 1960s when modern scientific linguistics began. It contrasts the methods and works of the early practitioners of historical linguistics with the works of modern language scholars. It provides a sample of contemporary linguistic works implicated in language description and codification. |
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| Bibliografie: | istex:0C01475C4698C471EB022352D66B39E5FD427125 ArticleID:HIC3488 ark:/67375/WNG-CZFZ7JV5-1 ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 1478-0542 1478-0542 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2007.00488.x |