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 Western Oti/Volta languages (W.O/V).
The W.O/V
Languages
Birifor
Dagbani
Dagaari
Farefare
Hanga
Kamara
Kantoonsi (YR)
Kusaal (Agole)
Kusaal (Toende)
Kusaal (Burkina Faso)
Mampruli
Mõõré
Nabit
Niŋkããre
Safalaba
Talni
Waali
This project has been running for about 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. **