OLAC resources in and about the Xhosa language

ISO 639-3: xho

The combined catalog of all OLAC participants contains the following resources that are relevant to this language:

• Primary texts
• Lexical resources
• Language descriptions
• Other resources about the language
• Other resources in the language

Other known names and dialect names: Cauzuh, Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa

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Primary texts

1. ONLINEReport on Arthur Capell Estate by Peter Newton. Peter Newton. 1995. Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC). oai:paradisec.org.au:AC1-000
2. ONLINEXhosa. Arthur Capell (compiler); Arthur Capell (depositor); D.P. Hallowes (recorder). 1960. Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC). oai:paradisec.org.au:AC1-102A
3. ONLINESouth African Languages. Arthur Capell (compiler); Arthur Capell (depositor); D.P. Hallowes (recorder). 1962. Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC). oai:paradisec.org.au:AC1-102B
4. ONLINEEyeziqalo. The Long Now Foundation. n.d. The Rosetta Project: A Long Now Foundation Library of Human Language. oai:rosettaproject.org:rosettaproject_xho_gen-1

Lexical resources

1. ONLINECrúbadán language data for Xhosa. Kevin Scannell. 2018. The Crúbadán Project. oai:crubadan.org:xh
2. A new concise Xhosa-English dictionary. McLaren, J (James). 1963. Cape Town : Maskew Miller Longman. oai:gial.edu:24540

Language descriptions

1. ONLINEGlottolog 5.0 Resources for Xhosa. n.a. 2024. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. oai:glottolog.org:xhos1239
2. ONLINEPHOIBLE 2.0 phonemic inventories for Xhosa. n.a. 2019. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. oai:phoible.org:xhos1239
3. ONLINEWALS Online Resources for Xhosa. n.a. 2024. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. oai:wals.info:xho

Other resources about the language

1. ONLINEA Xhosa grammar. McLaren, James. 1939. Longmans, Green. oai:refdb.wals.info:2580
2. ONLINEXhosa. Downing, Laura J. 2001. Facts About the World's Languages. An Encyclopedia of the World's Languages: Past and Present. oai:refdb.wals.info:2938
3. The intonation of the sentence and its constituent parts in Xhosa and Tsonga. Louw, J. A (Jacobus Abraham). 1968. Pretoria : University of South Africa. oai:gial.edu:8951
4. ONLINEXhosa: a language of South Africa. n.a. 2018. SIL International. oai:ethnologue.com:xho
5. ONLINELINGUIST List Resources for Xhosa. Damir Cavar, eLinguistics Foundation Board Member (editor); Malgorzata E. Cavar, Director of Linguist List (editor). 2022-05-31. The LINGUIST List (www.linguistlist.org). oai:linguistlist.org:lang_xho
6. ONLINEInkcazo-Jikelele Ngeemfanelo Zoluntu Isinneniso. The Long Now Foundation. n.d. Diffusion Multilingue des Droits de l'Homme, France, in cooperation with UNESCO. oai:rosettaproject.org:rosettaproject_xho_undec-1

Other resources in the language

1. ONLINEPlaintext Wikipedia dump 2018. Rosa, Rudolf. 2018. Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (UFAL). oai:lindat.mff.cuni.cz:11234/1-2735

Other known names and dialect names: Cauzuh, Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa

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