Language and national identity in Africa

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Label

Language and national identity in Africa

Statement of responsibility

edited by Andrew Simpson

Contributor

• Simpson, Andrew, 1962-

Subject

• Taal
• Africa
• Africa -- Languages | Political aspects
• Afrika
• Afrikanska språk
• Anthropological linguistics
• Anthropological linguistics -- Africa
• Antropologisk lingvistik -- Afrika
• Electronic books
• Electronic books
• LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics | Sociolinguistics
• Language and languages -- Political aspects
• Nationale identiteit
• Nationalism
• Nationalism -- Africa
• Nationalism -- Afrika
• Språk -- politiska aspekter

Language

eng

Summary

This book focuses on language, culture, and national identity in Africa. Leading specialists examine countries in every part of the continent - Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Senegal, Mali, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanbia, South Africa, and the nations of the Horn, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia. Each chapter describes and examines the country's linguistic and political history and the relation of its languages to national, ethnic, and cultural identities, and assesses the relative status of majority and minority languages and the role of language in ethnic conflict. --From publisher's description

Member of

• Oxford linguistics
• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

306.44/96

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

P119.32.A3

LC item number

L364 2008eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Oxford linguistics