Resources

Here are some resources, some of which will be relevant for researchers, students of language, and those interested in the scope of opportunities for language technology for African languages.

Photo Credit: Faber Residency

Language Project Groups

Niger Volta Language Technology Institute on GitHub | The repository for some African language technology initiatives and research I belong to.

YorubaName on GitHub | The repository of the code behind the YorubaName projects.

YorubaNameDev on Slack — Slack channel for linguists/language technology enthusiasts for brainstorming on African language projects and research.

Lexicography

Yorùbá Melody, an audio coursebook in German, Spanish, Portuguese and English (free)

Yorùbá and Igbo diacritic marker (free)

Yorùbá Names Dictionary

Yorùbá Word Dictionary

Yorùbá learning resources (Google Doc)

YorubaLyrics.ng

Thesis

Studies of Initial Tonal Acquisition by American English Speakers Learning Yorùbá (my MA thesis on Academia (2012)

Papers and Other Third Party References

The Language Custodian | An essay in the Spring Issue of Latterly Magazine (May 2017) focusing on Túbọ̀sún's work in fighting for the survival of Yorùbá in this century and the next.

The Emergent Queer: Homosexuality and Nigerian Fiction in the 21st Century | an academic essay by Lindsey Green-Simms in Research in African Literatures Vol. 47, No. 2, Queer Valences in African Literatures and Film (Summer 2016), pp. 139-161 (23 pages) about my work on NTLitMag (2012-2015) in providing visibility and a platform for expression for queer Nigerians

African Literati React to Oscars Disqualification of Nigeria’s First Ever Entry, Lionheart, with Conversation on Language, Colonial Legacy | On BrittlePaper.com, news about different responses in the Nigerian creative space to the disqualification of Lionheart for the Oscars on the basis of its language.