formerly L-OR/09 Languages and literatures of Africa

Studies on the languages and literatures of Africa (Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, Niger-Congo, and "Khoisan" languages, as well as isolated languages), in their production both written and oral and in their dialectal varieties. The field also includes the study of vehicular languages (pidgins, creoles, etc.) derived from the encounter with colonial languages, the phenomena of code-switching, and the study of African literatures expressed in European languages. It also includes studies on the material culture and history of the areas concerned, as well as on the interactions between the Libyan-Berber world and the great Mediterranean civilizations from prehistory to the modern world. The methodologies adopted are those of linguistic, anthropological, ethnological, philological, and critical-literary research.