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The West African Linguistic Society (abbreviated as WALS) is an academic scholarly society formed in 1965 to foster and encourage research in the West African languages and literature as well as provide a permanent forum for interaction and exchange of ideas among scholars of African languages. Membership of the Society is largely drawn from ...
Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) European Second Language Association (EuroSLA) Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA) Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL) Symposium on Second Language Writing; 4th International ESP Conference, Nis, Serbia [4]
The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), formerly known as the West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA), is a pan-African intergovernmental association and a CGIAR Research organization, currently headquartered in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. [1] AfricaRice is an agricultural research center that was constituted in 1971 by 11 West African ...
Some notable cross-border languages include Berber (which stretches across much of North Africa and some parts of West Africa), Kikongo (that stretches across northern Angola, western and coastal Democratic Republic of the Congo, and western and coastal Republic of the Congo), Somali (stretches across most of the Horn of Africa), Swahili ...
The project is planned to start in the first half of 2025 and will initially focus on incorporating regional languages spoken in West Africa into OpenAI's "Whisper" and Meta's "Llama" software ...
The journal was established in 1964 and up to volume 8 published by Cambridge University Press.It was subsequently taken over by the West African Linguistic Society. Editing and production were initially undertaken at the University of Ibadan, but production was later transferred to the Summer Institute of Linguistics beginning with volu
The African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA), commonly referred to as AfLIA, [1] [2] is an international not-for-profit organization headquartered in Accra, Ghana. [3] [4] The Association is registered under the laws of Ghana as an NGO. It is managed under the general guidelines of its Constitution and by-laws. [5]
West African Pidgin English arose during the period of the transatlantic slave trade as a language of commerce between British and African slave traders. Portuguese merchants were the first Europeans to trade in West Africa beginning in the 15th century, and West African Pidgin English contains numerous words of Portuguese origin such as sabi ('to know'), a derivation of the Portuguese saber. [3]