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Dictionaries

 

... in various languages

of Ghana (and nearby)

I am working on a series of dictionary databases in the  group of related languages  spoken in Northern Ghana and adjacent areas, technically known as the Southeastern group of Central MaBia languages (formerly known as SE subgroup of Western Oti-Volta under Gur,.

The MaB.N
     Languages

Birifor

Dagbani

Dagaari

Farefare

Hanga

Kamara

Kantoonsi (YR)

Kusaal (Agole)

Kusaal (Toende)

Kusaal  (Burkina Faso)

Mampruli

Mõõré

Nabit

Niŋkããre

Nõõtre

Safalaba

Talni

Waali

 

Nõõtre

100 Km. west

Benin

This project has been running for over 40 years!! It arose from an idea for a computerised database of  the world's languages sketched by Dr. Joe Grimes in the early 1970s which was ahead of its time and didn't get off the ground.

In my 'spare time' I have been collecting wordlists, vocabularies and dictionaries from the some 16-20 languages, and hesitating  between entering words from all the languages for each vocabulary item in turn in the comparative database, and making a dictionary for each language and merging them.  The latter plan prevailed.

 

** If you hover over 'Dictionaries' in the header menu,

you can choose a particular language dictionary to look at. **

 

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