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African Languages and Development

African Languages and Development. November 2013. Map of African Language families. LANGUAGES OF AFRICA. 1.There are about 6000 languages in the world. 2. Africa is the home of about 2000 languages. 3. The languages serve a variety of purposes. Such as: Mother tongues / first languages.

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African Languages and Development

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  1. African Languages and Development November 2013

  2. Map of African Language families

  3. LANGUAGES OF AFRICA 1.There are about 6000 languages in the world. 2. Africa is the home of about 2000 languages. 3. The languages serve a variety of purposes. Such as: • Mother tongues / first languages. • Official languages. • Trade languages – Lingua franca • Ritual / theological languages Coptic Christian minority in Egypt, Geez in Ethiopia, Yewe language in Ghana, Togo and Benin • Media for artistic expression and entertainment • Non-indigenous languages that come through colonialism – English, French, Portuguese and Spanish

  4. IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT AFRICA • Africa is the second largest continent after Asia. • The land size is about three and half times the size of USA • Africa has 54 modern states including the island republic off its coast. • Most African states are multi-lingual except a few like Somali, Swaziland, Lesotho and Botswana. • Nigeria has over 250 languages • Kenya has 100. • Ghana has about 66 • African Diaspora - Europe, Caribbean, North America and South America.

  5. Making the African Diaspora 1. Forced migration 2. Slave trade 3. Conflicts 4. Colonialism (French policy)

  6. LANGUAGE MAP OF GHANA

  7. Ghana Languages • Language contact phenomenon in Ghana. • Multilingualism is a NORM in Ghana. • Code switching and Code mixing • Major languages and Minority languages

  8. Languages in contact Pidgin – Language with reduced grammatical structure which is not the native language of no one. Creole – Pidgin language which has become the mother tongue of a speech community. Lingua franca – Language used to enable communication to take place between people who speak different native languages Borrowing – linguistic form taken over by one language from another Serial Verb Construction – A sequence of verbs in a clause but there is no conjunction or subordination.

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