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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Shiro BsquLadat)
Subject: west african languages
Date: Tue May 22 17:50:01 2001
I'm currently running a campaign in the Ivory coast
and i was wondering if anyone knows any names of any
african languages that i can use?

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Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Peter Kristiansen)
Subject: west african languages
Date: Tue May 22 18:20:01 2001
From: "Shiro BsquLadat" <shirogr@*****.com>
> I'm currently running a campaign in the Ivory coast
> and i was wondering if anyone knows any names of any
> african languages that i can use?
>
"Yanks out SR2, flipping the pages to p. 74": Anyi, Ashanti, Azande,
... , Mende, More, Mossi, ... Rundi, Rwanda, ... Swahili, Temne, ..
Zande, Zulu.

This was just some of the entries in the Niger-Kordofanian (Bantu)
Language family. I have no idea if any of these languages - besides
Swahili and (I guess) Rwanda and Zulu - actually exists today.
Btw, you can find online translators for Swahili and probably some of
the others as well. They are no way near perfect but they actually do
return the right answer from time to time :-)

In addition here is a listing of the countries of the world - well
those that CIA knows of, you can find the listing of the official
languages for each country.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/indexgeo.html

Hakuna Matata
Peter.
Message no. 3
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Sebastian Wiers)
Subject: west african languages
Date: Wed May 23 08:30:01 2001
>I'm currently running a campaign in the Ivory coast
>and i was wondering if anyone knows any names of any
>african languages that i can use?

Today, the main languiage in the Ivory Coast is French. It used to be a
French Colony, and maintians that heritage.

-Mongoose

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