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Address and opening hours
- Address : CAPA building (E) , 3rd floor
- Accessible from Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. until 4.30 p.m.
- Open to students, researchers and any person interested in the traditional languages and literature of Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Accessible to persons with reduced mobility.
- Consultation on site; borrowing is not permitted.
Collections
- Books and reviews dedicated to Sub-Saharan Africa in the fields of oral literature and linguistics :
- grammar, lexicons, linguistic atlases
- comparative or historical linguistics, classification
- vehicular languages, contacts between languages
- teaching manuals
- epics, stories, proverbs, etc.
- bibliography, etc.
The Bantu and Mande groups are well-documented.
Contact: Muriel Garsou
- Linguistics Library Catalogue
The Linguistics Library Catalogue currently holds about 2.800 books and articles dedicated to Sub-Saharan Africa in the fields of oral literature and linguistics.
This online version of the catalogue is a work in progress. The actual content of the library is much richer (more than 9000 references).
(http://www.metafro.be/library_catalogs/linguistics/base_view)