Remnant African languages
Remnant African languages refers here to some 20 unclassified languages (see map), half of which are extinct. For lack of a better solution, I have also placed Malagasy (Africa's only Austronesian language) on this page.
Several languages listed on the Khoesan and Nilosaharan pages could also have been listed here, but have been left where they are for convenience (at least for the time being).
A SELECTION OF PRINTED SOURCES
Bender, Marvin Lionel. 1983. Remnant languages of Ethiopia and Sudan. In: Nilo-Saharan language studies (ed. by Marvin Lionel Bender), p. 336-354. African Studies Center, Michigan State University.
Blench, Roger M. 1999. Are the African pygmies an ethnographic fiction? In: Central African hunter-gatherers in a multidisciplinary perspective (ed. by Karen Biesbrouck, Stefan Elders & Gerda Rossel), p. 41-60. Research School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies (CNWS).
Crozier, David Henry; Blench, Roger M. 1992. An index of Nigerian languages. 2nd edition. Language Development Centre at the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages at University of Ilorin, and Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL).
Maho, Jouni Filip. 2004. How many languages are there in Africa, really? In: Globalisation and African languages: risks and benefits (ed. by Katrin Bromber & Birgit Smieja), p. 279-296. Mouton de Gruyter.
Sommer, Gabi. 1992. A survey on language death in Africa. In: Language death: factual and theoretical explorations with special reference to East Africa (ed. by Matthias Brenzinger), p. 301-417. Mouton de Gruyter.
The Ethnologue, web edition. SIL International.
www.ethnologue.com
Wikipedia has a growing amount of information on various African languages, be they classified or not.
en.wikipedia.org
Dogon and Bangi Me Linguistics
www.dogonlanguages.com
Roger M. Blench, 2005
Bangi me, a language of unknown affiliation in northern Mali (PDF). Mallam Dendo, Cambridge.
www.rogerblench.info/RBOP.htm
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Cen Tuum, Jalaa < unclassified African language (Map 13)
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Wikipedia
The Jalaa language.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalaa_language
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Laal, Gori < unclassified African language (Map 14)
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Wikipedia
The Laal language.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laal_language
Dictionnaire français malgache sommaire, avec grammaire, traductions, chansons, etc..
dico.malgache.free.fr/index.html
Jean-François Baré, 1974
La terminologie de parenté Sakalava du nord (Madagascar): règles sémantiques, règles sociologiques. L'homme, v. 14 (49), p. 5-41.
www.persee.fr/showIssue.do?issueKey=hom_0439-4216_1974_num_14_1
Roger M. Blench
The Austronesians in Madagascar and their interaction with the Bantu of the East African coast: surveying the linguistic evidence for domestic and translocated animals (PDF). Mallam Dendo, Cambridge.
www.rogerblench.info/RBOP.htm
Edward L. Keenan, Cecile Manorohanta, 2000
A quantitative study of voice on Malagasy (PDF).
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/keenan/quantit.pdf
Edward L. Keenan, Baholisoa Ralalaoherivony, 1998
Raising from NP in Malagasy (PDF).
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/keenan/raising.pdf
Edward L. Keenan, Jean Paul Razafimamonjy, 2000
Reciprocals in Malagasy (PDF).
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/keenan/reciproc.pdf
Paul Law, 2005
Questions and clefts in Malagasy (PDF). From: UCLA working papers in linguistics, v. 12, p. 195-209.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/faciliti/wpl/issues/wpl12/wpl12.htm
Ying Lin, 2005
Two perspectives on Malagasy reduplication: derivational and OT analyses (PDF). From: UCLA working papers in linguistics, v. 12, p. 255-271.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/faciliti/wpl/issues/wpl12/wpl12.htm
Andrew Martin, 2005
Loanwords as pseudo-compounds in Malagasy (PDF). From: UCLA working papers in linguistics, v. 12, p. 287-295.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/faciliti/wpl/issues/wpl12/wpl12.htm
Dimitris Ntelitheos, 2005
Malagasy participant nominalizations: a structural account (PDF). From: UCLA working papers in linguistics, v. 12, p. 313-327.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/faciliti/wpl/issues/wpl12/wpl12.htm
Dimitris Ntelitheos, 2005
Root infinitives in Malagasy (PDF). From: UCLA working papers in linguistics, v. 12, p. 329-342.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/faciliti/wpl/issues/wpl12/wpl12.htm
Philip M. Parker
Malagasy English dictionary.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/Malagasy-english
Ileana M. Paul, 2005
Or, wh- and not: free choice and polarity in Malagasy (PDF). From: UCLA working papers in linguistics, v. 12, p. 359-367.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/faciliti/wpl/issues/wpl12/wpl12.htm
Matthew Pearson, 2005
Tense (mis)matches between verbs and abliques in Malagasy (PDF). From: UCLA working papers in linguistics, v. 12, p. 369-382.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/faciliti/wpl/issues/wpl12/wpl12.htm
Lisa Demena Travis, 2005
Passives, states, and roots and Malagasy (PDF). From: UCLA working papers in linguistics, v. 12, p. 395-409.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu/faciliti/wpl/issues/wpl12/wpl12.htm
Kirsty Rowan, 2006
A phonological investigation into the Meroitic 'syllable' signs: 'ne' and 'se' and their implications on the 'e' sign (PDF). SOAS working papers in linguistics, v. 14, p. 131-167.
www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/research/workingpapers/volume-14/swpl-volume-14.html
Kirsty Rowan, 2006
Meroitic: an Afroasiatic language? (PDF). SOAS working papers in linguistics, v. 14, p. 169-206.
www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/research/workingpapers/volume-14/swpl-volume-14.html
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Ongota, Birale, Shanqilla < unclassified African language (Map 16)
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Klaus Wedekind, 2002
Sociolinguistic survey report of the languages of the Gawwada, Tsamaya and Diraasha areas, with excursions to Birayle (Ongota) and Arbore (Irbore) - Part II (PDF). SIL electronic survey report SILESR 2002-066.
www.sil.org/silesr/abstract.asp?ref=2002-066
Lameen Souag
Oropom etymological lexicon (PDF).
lameen.googlepages.com
Wikipedia
The Oropom language.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oropom_language
Anbessa Teferra, 1991
A sketch of Shabo grammar (PDF).
eric.ed.gov (ED371607)
Wikipedia
The Shabo language with a lexicon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabo_language
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabo_lexicon
Wikipedia
The Weyto language.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyto_language
