Autori: tom e jerry     

E-mail:   tom e jerry@

Ambito: etno-antropologico

Livello: Scuola secondaria di secondo grado

Do you know the meaning of  philogenesis?

Which is the relationship between  phylogenetic unit and language?

Can you identify a current distribution of human language families?

Can you draw a map showing the distribution of African language families?

Who do you think  tried to put African spoken languages in a written form and why?

What constitutes African literature?

Does African literature have to be written in African languages?

Some  people say that any literature written in non-African  languages  is not African literature. What do you think about this "problem"?

Was it possible to construct a credible history out of  oral tradition turned into written language?

What do African scholars  say about  African oral tradition and history?

After reading carefully the following African sayings, discuss of truth and how we may determine it inside t oral tradition.

• A stranger in town / Walks over hallowed graves (Nembe).
•  One ignorant of his origin / Is nondo (nonhuman) (Nembe).
• The fly who has no adviser / Will follow the corpse into the grave (Ikwerre)

Per la domanda numero 1, naviga questi siti:

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Se vuoi trovare informazioni sull'origine e lo sviluppo delle nostre lingue vai a:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_families_and_languages

http://www.bartleby.com/65/af/Africanlng.html

http://www.bartleby.com/65/af/Afroasia.html 

http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/byrnes-africa/lismar/