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Language resources
Our languages are the part of our inheritance most at risk and the easiest to lose without noticing. This page lists what exists to learn, teach and study them: dictionaries and grammars, the codes linguists use to catalog them, recordings, and the translations in which many Dega families first saw their language written.
Writing our languages
Our languages were spoken for thousands of years before any of them was written. Between 1861 and the 1970s, missionaries, a French administrator, American linguists and our own teachers put them into the Latin alphabet. Each language got its own spelling, at a different time, for a different reason. Governments have since banned, changed and re...
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