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Zulu <=> English dictionary with basic grammar rules and pronunciation including audio samples.Besides searching for simple words, it is possible to look for a chain of words, like adjective + noun (e.g. "big tree") or for inflected verbs (e.g. asimbonanga = we/they did not see him/her). Furthermore there are a few infos about Zulu books or movies. ... [editors ilissAfrica]

Homepage of the University of Pretoria - South Africa. There is a Department for African Languages and one for Anthropology and Archaeology. You can study the following languages: Ndebele, Zulu, Sepedi / Sesotho, Setswana. There is research about: The localisation (translation) of the user interface (UI) of the Microsoft Windows XP operating system into isiZulu (The link to the document doesn't function. Use this instead: http://www.be.up.co.za/images/documents/NewsSept06-africanlanguages.pdf) ... [editors ilissAfrica]

Although the site has a lot of ads, the basic vocabulary you can learn from there is useful. Some languages also have audio examples. The quiz or exercise is also a nice feature whereby you can put your vocabulary knowledge to a test. The following African languages are available: Dagaare, Luganda, Sesotho (Southern Sotho), Swahili, Tswana, Wolof, Xhosa, Zulu. ... [editors ilissAfrica]

Articles and the dissertation of L.C. Buell PhD as online full texts. His focus is on: Syntax (locative inversion, reason and purpose questions [why questions], the right periphery, and copular constructions in Bantu languages; reason questions more generally, especially in SVO languages with Wh in situ), morpho-syntax, phonology/syntax interface, Zulu tone, phonological, syntactic, historical, and comparative study of Semitic, Bantu. Languges he has written about: Zulu (South Africa), Wolof (Senegal), Swahili (Tanzania / Kenya) und Sambaa / Shambala (Tanzania). ... [editors ilissAfrica]

This site was created within the framework of the ThinkQuest Competition, in which students from all over the world can participate and build up a website for a topic they chose. This particular site was built up by students from South Africa, who were 19 years old or younger. The site presents single aspects of Zulu, Xhosa and Sotho culture, but in general is not very comprehensive. The site is interesting, though, cause it is written from the perspective of South African students, who partly used interviews with their parents to built up the content of this site. ... [editors ilissAfrica]

Collection of Prof. Scheub who does extensive research on oral literatures in southern African countries. This site offers you pictures of storytellers, recorded stories and the fulltext of Prof. Scheub's book "South African Voices" including transcripts of stories (in the original language), audio files of the stories told and interviews with the storytellers. ... [editors ilissAfrica]