1st Edition

A Sketch of the Modern Languages of Africa: Volume I

By Robert Needham Cust Copyright 2001
    306 Pages
    by Routledge

    306 Pages
    by Routledge

    This volume I of three on series on Africa. It is part one and a look is a look at the old, extinct and mixed languages of Africa and was originally published in 1883.

    CHAPTER I. Introduction, CHAPTER II. Progress of Knowledge, CHAPTER III. Extinct and Dead Languages: Foreign Languages: Mixed Languages in Course of Formation, CHAPTER IV. Classification of Languages, CHAPTER V. Materials Available, CHAPTER VI. Written Characters, CHAPTER VII. Scheme of the Work, CHAPTER VIII. Semitic Group, CHAPTER IX. Hamitic Group, CHAPTER X. Nuba-Fulah Group, CHAPTER XI. Negro Group

    Biography

    Cust, Robert Needham