ED 256 170 AUTHOR TITLE INSTITUTION SPONS AGENCY PUB DATE GRANT NOTE PUB TYPE EDRS PRICE , DESCRIPTORS DOCUMENT RESUME FL 014 996 Dwyer, David J.; Yankee, Everyl African Language Resource Handbook: A Resource Handbook of the Eighty-two Highest Priority African Languages. Prepublication Edition. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. African Studies Center. Department of Education, Washington, DC. Jan 85 G00-82-02163 242p. Reference Materials - Directories/Catalogs (132) MF01/PC10 Plus Postage. *African Languages; Afro Asiatic Languages; Dialects; Educational Policy; *Information Sources; *Language Classification; *Language Role; *Language Usage; Malagasy; Mauritian Creole; Native Language Instruction; Official Languages; Orthographic Symbols; Public Policy; Second Language Instruction; Sierra Leone Creole; *Writ In Language ABSTRACT A directory of the 82 African languages given high rriority for instruction in the United States contains a profile for each language that includes its classification and where It is spoken, the number of speakers, dialect situation, usage, orthography status, and listings of related human and institutional resources for the purpose of systematizing instruction. The languages profiled are: Akan, Amharic, Anyi/Baule, Arabic, Bamileko, Bemba, Berber, Chewa/Nyanja, Chokwe/Lunda, Dinka (Agar/Bor/ Padang), Ebira, Edo (Bini), Efik/Ibibio/Anaang, Ewe/Mina/Fon (Gbe), Fulfulde (Fulani/Peul, Fula), Ganda (oluGanda, Luganda), Gbaya, Gogo, Gurage, Hausa, Hehe, Idoma, Igbo, ijo, Kalnnjin (Nandi/Kipsigis), Kamba, Fanuri, Kikuyu, Kongo (Kituba), Kpelle, Krio/Pidgin (Cluster), isru/Bassa, Lingala, Lozi (Silozi), Luba (Chiluba), Luo/Acholi/Lango, Luyia, Maasai, Makua/Lomwe, Malagasy, Mandingo, Mauritian Creole, Mbundu (Kiumbundu), Mende/2:Adi/Loko, Meru, Mongo/Nkundo, More, Nema, Nubian, Nuer, Nupe, Nyakusa, Nyoro, Oromo, Ruandu/Rundi, Sango, Sara, Senufo (Senari), Serer, Shona, Sidamo, Somali, Songhai, Soninke, Sotho/Tswana, Sukuma/Nyamwezi, Suppire, Susu, Swahili, Temne, Teso/Turkana, Tigrinya, Tiv, Tsonga, Tumbuka, Umbundu, Venda, Wolof, Xhosa/Zulu/Swazi, Yao (Makonde), Yoruba, and Zande. Appendices (40% of the document) include: (1) a list of '...anguages by priority category; (2) institutional and individual questionnaires; (3) a bibliography; (4) listings of resource persons and institutions; (5) a country by country listing of the priority languages; and (6) a listing of languages and the country where it is spoken. (MSE) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************A.t************************