Logo Lanfrica
  • Home
  • Atlas
  • Insights
  • Docs
  • Sign in

© 2026 Lanfrica. All rights reserved. All copyrights of the resources shown on the Lanfrica website belong to the original copyright holders, unless explicitly stated otherwise.

Philology and Africa

Domain:

natural language processing

Record type:

paper
Creator:
A.
Publisher:
Cam
Host:
Philological studies in Africa are inevitably bound up with the vexed question of the classification of its languages. Many authorities have attempted this classification. Some, like Oust, Drexel, Delafosse, van Bulck, rely on evidence which is as much ethnological as linguistic, while others, like Müller, Meinhof, Westermann, Werner, Sir Harry Johnston, Guthrie, Homburger, Greenberg, and the various authors of the ‘Handbook of African Languages’, have tried to confine themselves to linguistic criteria. It is the purpose of this article to discuss the sort of linguistic data these investigators have consulted, and their methods of using it.

Visit

doi.org

Licenses

https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms

Similar

Contested Philology: Kiswahili as Religious LanguageI. "On certain Recent Additions to African Philology;"VIII.—ON CERTAlN CLASSES IN AFRICAN PHILOLOGY; ESPECIALLY THE MANDINGO, KOURI, NUFI, AND FULA GROUPSšafʿala-Verbs in Jordanian and Standard Arabic: A Lexical and Etymological Study in Light of Semitic and Classical Arabic PhilologyAncient Egyptian philology: The digital turn. Current projects and future perspectives for the study of Ancient Egyptian textsWOLF LESLAU, Ethiopic and South Arabic Contributions to the Hebrew Lexicon. — Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press 1958. 76 S. (University of California Publications in Semitic Philology, Vol. 20)

Contested Philology: Kiswahili as Religious Language

I. "On certain Recent Additions to African Philology;"

n/a

VIII.—ON CERTAlN CLASSES IN AFRICAN PHILOLOGY; ESPECIALLY THE MANDINGO, KOURI, NUFI, AND FULA GROUPS

n/a

šafʿala-Verbs in Jordanian and Standard Arabic: A Lexical and Etymological Study in Light of Semitic and Classical Arabic Philology

Abstract The article discusses the etymological origin of verbs like šaqlaba, šaḥtafa and šaḥṭa

Ancient Egyptian philology: The digital turn. Current projects and future perspectives for the study of Ancient Egyptian texts

International audience [en] Use of Information Technologies in Egyptology can be trac

WOLF LESLAU, Ethiopic and South Arabic Contributions to the Hebrew Lexicon. — Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press 1958. 76 S. (University of California Publications in Semitic Philology, Vol. 20)