African Languages Offered

History of African Languages at IU

African language study at Indiana University Bloomington (IUB) has a long tradition of excellence and provides support to Africanists in the humanities, social sciences, and in the professional schools. Since 1965, we have taught over 100 courses and tutorials in 40 African languages at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels as well as in Linguistics field methods courses. Languages taught since 1993 include: Akan/Twi, Bamana, Chichewa, Chindali, Fulfulde, Hausa, Kiswahili, Kpelle, Lingala, Luo, Ndonga, Oku, Shona, Sotho, Wolof, and isiZulu.