The linguistic landscape is far more complicated than it first appears, with many isolated languages and sub-families that continue to challenge researchers. Some languages remain unclassified, while ...

Between 1,000 and 2,000 languages are spoken across Africa in comparison to just over 200 in Europe. ... which have roots in the major language families in the world. The map, ...

Greenberg published “The Languages of Africa” shortly after arriving at Stanford in 1962. He chaired the university’s anthropology department from 1971 to 1974 and the Committee on African ...

And the Mande family — I like writing that — is but one example of this tendency to over-lump African languages.Modern linguists have been showing that a great many languages classified as ...

A University of Kansas professor hopes a new federal grant will help KU become a hub for the study of an African language family and bring more Africans to the university as well. John Gluckman ...