Maps, Dictionaries, Tools

African Languages Lists & Maps

Dictionaries Portals 

Specific Dictionaries 

Tools 

Translators

African Languages Lists & Maps 

• Classification of African Languages (Barbara F. Grimes) 

• Distribution of African Languages (Muturzikin.com)

• Africa: Language by Country (UNESCO)

• African Languages at Penn Map (University of Pennsylvania)

• Languages of Africa Map (Stephen Huffman)

• The Webbook of African Language Resources  (by Michigan State University)

Dictionaries Portals 

• African Dictionaries by Multilingualbooks.com is a collection of pages with links to online african languages dictionaries, including Amharic, Bantu, Hausa, Luganda, Mandinks, Shona, Wolof, etc.

• Yourdictionary.com.  Downloadable dictionaries for many languages, including a number from Africa.

• AFLANG Directory over African languages (Chadic and Niger-Congo language families) provided by the University of California.

• Alphadictionary.com lists more than 300 languages and dialects spoken all over the world, including African languages dictionaries and grammars.

• CBOLD: Comparative Bantu On-line Dictionary Project is a collection of lexical databases covering over 260 Bantu languages; originally hosted by the Linguistics Department of UC Berkeley, the CBOLD website is now based at Le laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage (DDL) in Lyon.

• Motherland Nigeria. Languages in Nigeria. Site about Nigeria, including country information, language samples, language resources.

• Languages of Zambia. A rich bibliographical source on languages spoken in Zambia; website created and maintained by Lee Bickmore, University of Albany.

• The Kamusi Project. The Internet Living Swahili Dictionary (Yale University), is a collaborative work by people all over the world. The aim is to establish new dictionaries of the Swahili language, both within Swahili and between Swahili and English.

• Salanguages.com website dedicated to the languages of South Africa.

Specific dictionaries 

• Afrikaans-English/German Dictionary 

• Bole-English- Hausa Dictionary

• Cilubà-Français 

• Fang-English, French, Spanish, Portoguese Dictionary

• Hausa-English Dictionary 

• Hausa verb conjugator

• Luganda Dictionary 

• Maa (Maasai) Dictionary 

• Shona Dictionary 

• Somali English Dictionary 

• Northern Sotho English Dictionary 

• Swahili Dictionary (Kamusi Project)

• Swahili-English Dictionary 

• Jammar Wolof. Grammar Orthography, Phrases, Pronunciation

• Wolof video Course 

• Zarmaciine-English-Français

Tools

• Digital Dialects. Interactive activities for learning languages. The Swahili Activities Page has interactive games for learning the Swahili language. Created by Craig Gibson. Learning games also in Afrikaans, Arabic, Somali.

• Foreign Service Institute Language Courses. Full text of African language manuals: Amharic, Chinyanja, Fula, Hausa, Igbo, Kituba, Lingala, Luganda, Mooré, Shona, Swahili, Twi, Yoruba. 

• Inventory table of characters. African Symbols Inventory by Lee Pearce 2/2003.

• PanAfriL10n.African localisation wiki. List of scripts used in Africa.

• Tables from Practical Orthography of African Languages, rev. ed., International Institute of African Languages and Cultures, Oxford,1930. 

Translators

• Arabic-English Translators (Free subscription required)

• Majstro. A multilingual translation dictionary. Translates Afrikaans, Swahili and Zulu to English and vice versa. Has a table of each country's national language with the ISO-country code and the numerals from 1-10 in Afrikaans and Swahili.

• Pulaar/Fulfulde Translators

• Xhosa Translators