Dear Isaac, forgive me for trying to contribute something sarcastic. I just wanted to point to the fact, that the nice article from Brazil about our project carried a pretty stupid prejudice by listing different "languages", but called the African ones just "dialects" , as if the sounds coming out of Africa have not yet reached the level of a "language". "Dialect" often (not by linguists proper) has a connotation as an inferior, substandard level of communication compared to a "real language". So these 16 poor African women at home only learned "dialects", luckily most of them later came to acquire some knowledge in real "languages"?

I mean the sentence "biografias de personalidades femininas africanas http://www.cartaeducacao.com.br/reportagens/africanas-high-tech/ serão editadas em *diversas línguas diferentes*: árabe, inglês, francês, espanhol, português, mandarim e alemão, além de *dialetos africanos, como yorubá e zulu*. " Which means in English "Biographies of African female personalities will be published in *several different languages*: Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin and German, as well as *African dialects such as Yoruba and Zulu.*" One might call this somehow a "praise laced with poison of arrogance" (maybe a bit racism). But as said before, it was basically just a sarcastic remark, so no instant action needed (unless someone could write a letter of protest to the newspaper in Portuguese "dialect") Ingo

Hi Ingo, Do you mean a proposal on how to improve articles about African languages or on how to improve African language Wikipedia? What do you have in mind? Best, Isaac

-----Original Message----- From: "IKoll" ikoll@gmx.de Dear all, Surely it is positive that a Brazilian newspaper took note of the project... However, reading the text (with help of google translate) I learn that they tell readers about African Women bios being translated into a number of "languages" (like Arabic, English, Portuguese) and even "African DIALECTS" (like Yoruba and Zulu).

Ok, next project to draw attention to the fact that there are not only notable WOMEN in Africa but even notable LANGUAGES? Any proposals? Cheers Ingo