African Languages

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1. Languages Covered
2. African Language Links

Languages Covered

Below is an alphabetical list of languages covered and their ISO-639 language codes which are used to specify the language of a document or passage.

• Amharic/Ethiopic Script (am)
• Arabic (ar)
• Fula/Fulfulde/Pulaar (ff)
• Hausa (ha)
• Ge'ez (gez)
• Igbo (ig)
• Oromo (om)
• Somali (so)
• Swahili (sw)
• Tigrinya (ti)
• Wolof (wo)
• Xhosa (xh)
• Yoruba (yo)
• Zulu (zu)

 

African Language Links

African Computing

These pages cover internationalization of African languages.

• Open Road African Language Guide
• Bisharat Net - very technical information
• PanAfrican Localisation project - Another resource from the developers of Bisharat

African Languages

• UCLA AFLANG Directory
• Languages of South Africa
• Bantu Languages Com
• Cornell African Writing Systems
• Penn Languages of Africa Resources

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