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Language and Literature: Burkina Faso

Includes information on the principal language(s) of the country, linguistics, online dictionaries, grammars, teaching aids.

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Ethnologue -- Burkina Faso (http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/countries/Burk.html)
Gives number of speakers, dialects, linguistic affiliation; also has a linguistic map.

Kuba, Richard and Carola Lentz - "The Dagara and Their Neighbors (Burkina Faso and Ghana)" from the Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography (http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/ejab/7/index.html)
877 bibliographic entries consisting of books, journal articles, theses, and book chapters, in English, French, German or Italian, on such diverse topics as economy, society, language, literature, and history.

WorldLanguage --Burkina Faso (http://www.worldlanguage.com/Countries/BurkinaFaso.htm)
Provides general linguistic description of population; links to information on the eight languages and their various dialects spoken in Burkina Faso; includes writing samples; also presents general overview of country and has audio link to national anthem.

Yale Africa Guide InterActive: Language
(http://swahili.africa.yale.edu/links/Language/)
Searchable by country. Site offers links to web sites featuring the following African languages of interest to speakers of that language and to those interested in learning more about it: Afrikaans, Amharic, Hausa, Luganda, Shona, Swahili, Wolof, Xhosa. Yoruba, and Zulu.

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