Saturday, June 22, 2013

Lemurs: New, African languages, wiki Subject page at WUaS, "There are over 2100 and by some counts over 3000 languages spoken natively in Africa in several major language families," "Ethnologue" counts 2,146 languages, Ethnologue's Africa page, What an amazing abundance and flourishing of linguistic diversity!, All of these languages will also become MIT OCW-centric, wiki universities or schools in those languages, with an invitation to Africans to build them.


New, African languages' wiki, Subject page at WUaS ...

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/African_languages - and -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/African_languages#World_University_and_School_Links.


From Wikipedia (Languages of Africa), I learned that "There are over 2100 and by some counts over 3000 languages spoken natively in Africa in several major language families: Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) spread throughout the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel Nilo-Saharan is centered on Sudan and Chad (disputed validity) Niger–Congo (Bantu) covers West, Central, and Southeast Africa Khoe is concentrated in the deserts of Namibia and Botswana Austronesian on Madagascar. Indo-European on the southern tip of the continent"). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Africa


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"Ethnologue" counts 2,146 languages - 




Ethnologue's Africa page,  not wiki -

http://www.ethnologue.com/page/africa


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What an amazing abundance and flourishing of linguistic diversity! :)


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All of these languages will also become MIT OCW-centric, wiki universities or schools in those languages, with an invitation to native speakers and Africans especially to build them online.



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