Dictionaries
... in various languages
of Ghana (and nearby)
This section contains 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. These dictionaries come from various sources, detailed in the introduction of each. and are the sources from which I have compiled a comparative dictionary of the whole group.
The MaB.N
Languages
Birifor
Dagbani
Dagaari
Farefare/
Gurεnε
Hanga
Kamara
Kantoonsi
Kusaal (Agole)
Kusaal (Toende)
Mampruli
Mõõré
Nabit
Nanun
Niŋkããre
Nõõtre
Safalaba
Talni
Waali
BR
DB
DR
GN
HG
KR
XT
KLA
KLT
MP
MR
NB
NN
NKR
NT
SF
TL
WL
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.
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