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Focusing on the significance of language, this volume delves into its impact on both public and private spheres in Africa. It examines how language shapes identity, culture, and social interactions, highlighting its essential role in communication and community cohesion across the continent. The exploration includes diverse linguistic practices and their implications for societal dynamics, providing a comprehensive understanding of language's influence in various contexts.

In the light of the notion of the African Renaissance, the book addresses the African Ianguage question with particular emphasis on the high potential and future roles of the indigenous languages for development in Africa. Focus is on South Africa's language policy as a role model for the whole continent. The book makes an easy-to-read introduction to central issues of language planning in Africa, for students of the social sciences, education, and linguistics as much as for language practitioners, educationists, administrators, politicians and decisions-makers. The rich appendices offer reference tools with regard to sociolinguistic profiles of all African countries and important documents regarding linguistic rights and the role of language in Africa.

CONTENTS Ari Awagana: La pluralité verbale en buduma Roger M. Blench: Why Reconstructing Comaparative Ron is so Problematic Véronique de Colombel: Grammaticalisation et ordre des unités dans dix langues du groupe tchadique-central Amedeo De Dominicis: Tone or Pitch Accent in Masa? Dymitr Ibriszimow / Victor Porkhomovsky: Towards a Typology of Kinship Terms and Systems in Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic) Mohammed M. Munkaila: Morphological Causative and Indirect Object Interface in Hausa Henry Tourneux: Le système consonantique des langues dites ' kotoko ' H. Ekkehard Wolff: Predication Focus in Chadic Languages