Appendix:Vocabulary lists of African languages

Below are vocabulary lists for African languages and proto-languages.

Many of the lists are glossed in French, with several also in German.

Nilo-Saharan

 * Appendix:Nilo-Saharan word lists (ru) - Starostin (2014, 2017) [in Russian]
 * Appendix:Proto-Nilo-Saharan reconstructions - Ehret (2001)
 * Eastern Sudanic languages
 * Appendix:Proto-Nilotic reconstructions - Dimmendaal (1988)
 * Appendix:Proto-Eastern Nilotic reconstructions - Vossen (1982)
 * Appendix:Proto-Southern Nilotic reconstructions - Rottland (1982) [in German]
 * Appendix:Proto-Surmic reconstructions - Yigezu (2001)
 * Appendix:Northern Eastern Sudanic reconstructions - Rilly (2010) [in French]
 * Appendix:Proto-Nubian reconstructions - Rilly (2010) [in French]
 * Appendix:Nara word list - Rilly (2005)
 * Appendix:Proto-Daju reconstructions - Thelwall (1981)
 * Appendix:Proto-Eastern Jebel reconstructions - Bender (1998)
 * Appendix:Temein word lists - Blench (2006)
 * Appendix:Central Sudanic word lists - Bokula & Irumu (1994) [in French]
 * Appendix:Proto-Central Sudanic reconstructions - Bender (1992)
 * Appendix:Proto-Sara-Bongo-Bagirmi reconstructions - Boyeldieu, et al. (2006) [in French and English]
 * Appendix:Sinyar word list - Boyeldieu (2013)
 * Appendix:Birri word list - Santandrea (1966)
 * Appendix:Proto-Mangbetu reconstructions - Demolin (1992) [in French]
 * Appendix:Proto-Kuliak reconstructions - Heine (1976)
 * Appendix:Ik word list - Schrock (2008)
 * Appendix:Kadu word lists - Schadeberg (1994); Stevenson & Blench (n.d.)
 * Appendix:Berta word lists - Neudorf (2016); Bremer (2016)
 * Appendix:Kunama word list - Bender (2001)
 * Appendix:Proto-Koman reconstructions - Bender (1983); Otero (2019)
 * Appendix:Gule word lists - Seligmann (1912); Evans-Pritchard (1932)
 * Appendix:Gumuz word lists - Ahland & Kelly (2014)
 * Appendix:Amdang word list - Wolf (2010) [in French]
 * Appendix:Mimi of Decorse word list - Gaudefroy-Demombynes (1907) [in French]
 * Appendix:Maban word lists - Edgar (1991); Blench (2021); Nougayrol (1986) [in French]
 * Appendix:Mimi of Nachtigal word list - Lukas & Völckers (1938) [in German]
 * Appendix:Kanuri word list - Löhr & Wolff (2009)
 * Appendix:Proto-Songhay reconstructions - Blench (n.d.)
 * Appendix:Tadaksahak word list - Christiansen-Bolli (2010)

Niger-Congo

 * Appendix:Proto-Niger-Congo numerals - Güldemann (2018); Pozdniakov (2018)
 * Appendix:Proto-Atlantic-Congo reconstructions - Mukarovsky (1976)
 * Appendix:Proto-Benue-Congo reconstructions - Blench (2004); de Wolf (1971)
 * Appendix:Proto-Grassfields reconstructions - Hyman (1979)
 * Appendix:Proto-Ring reconstructions - Paulin (1995)
 * Appendix:Momo word lists - Blench (2010)
 * Appendix:Tivoid word lists - Blench (2016) [in French and English]
 * Appendix:Ekoid word lists - Blench (2014)
 * Appendix:Beboid word lists - Blench (n.d.)
 * Appendix:Bendi word lists - Blench (2001)
 * Appendix:Proto-Bantu reconstructions - BLR3 (2002) [in French and English]
 * Appendix:Proto-Bantu Swadesh list - BLR2 (1999)
 * Appendix:Proto-Kongo reconstructions - Goes (2016)
 * Appendix:Proto-Jukunoid reconstructions - Shimizu (1980)
 * Appendix:Proto-Plateau reconstructions - Gerhardt (1983)
 * Appendix:Proto-Tarokoid reconstructions - Longtau (2004)
 * Appendix:Proto-Northern Jos reconstructions - Shimizu (1982)
 * Appendix:Proto-Fali reconstructions - Sweetman (1981)
 * YEAI languages
 * Appendix:Proto-Yoruboid reconstructions - Akinkugbe (1978); Aubry, Friedman & Pozdniakov (2004) [in French and English]; Pozdniakov (2018)
 * Appendix:Ulukwumi word list - Oluwadoro & Abiola (2016)
 * Appendix:Proto-Edoid reconstructions - Elugbe (1989)
 * Appendix:Proto-Akokoid reconstructions - Blench (n.d.); Fadoro (2010)
 * Appendix:Proto-Igboid reconstructions - Blench & Williamson (2016)
 * Appendix:Akpes word lists - Ibrahim (1989); Blench (2011)
 * Appendix:Ayere-Ahan word lists - Blench (2007)
 * Appendix:Proto-Gbe reconstructions - Capo (1991)
 * Appendix:Fongbe Swadesh list - Lefebvre & Brousseau (2002)
 * Appendix:Proto-Potou-Akanic reconstructions - Stewart (2004)
 * NOI languages
 * Appendix:Proto-Nupoid reconstructions - Bankale (2006); Blench (2013)
 * Appendix:Oko word list - Jungraithmayr (1973)
 * Appendix:Proto-Idomoid reconstructions - Armstrong (1983)
 * Appendix:Proto-Ukaan reconstructions - Abiodun (1999)
 * Cross River languages
 * Appendix:Proto-Upper Cross River reconstructions - Dimmendaal (1978)
 * Appendix:Proto-Lower Cross River reconstructions - Connell (n.d.)
 * Appendix:Anaang word list - Michael (2009)
 * Appendix:Proto-Ogoni reconstructions - Blench & Williamson (2008)
 * Appendix:Proto-Ijaw reconstructions - Blench & Williamson (2007)
 * Appendix:Defaka word list - Jenewari (1983)
 * Kwa languages
 * Appendix:Proto-Central Togo reconstructions - Heine (1968) [in German]
 * Appendix:Proto-Guang reconstructions - Snider (1990)
 * Adamawa languages
 * Appendix:Proto-Mumuye reconstructions - Shimizu (1979) [in Hausa and English]
 * Appendix:Proto-Jen reconstructions - Norton & Othaniel (2020)
 * Appendix:Yendang word lists - Blench, et al. (2009)
 * Appendix:Tula-Waja word lists - Kleinewillinghöfer (2014)
 * Appendix:Proto-Lakka reconstructions - Boyd (1974) [in French]
 * Appendix:Proto-Bua reconstructions - Boyeldieu (n.d.) [in French and English]
 * Appendix:Kim word lists - Roberts (1999) [in French]
 * Ubangian languages
 * Appendix:Proto-Gbaya reconstructions - Moñino (1995) [in French]
 * Gur languages
 * Appendix:Proto-Gurunsi reconstructions - Manessy (1969) [in French]
 * Appendix:Proto-Oti-Volta reconstructions - Manessy (1975) [in French]
 * Appendix:Proto-Eastern Oti-Volta reconstructions - Sambiéni (2005) [in French]
 * Appendix:Proto-Central Oti-Volta reconstructions - Manessy (1979) [in French]
 * Appendix:Tiefo word list - Berthelette & Berthelette (2002) [in French]
 * Appendix:Natioro word lists - Sawadogo (2002) [in French]
 * Appendix:Bariba word list - Welmers (1952)
 * Appendix:Dogon word lists - Heath et al. (2015) [in French and English]
 * Appendix:Proto-Mande reconstructions - Vydrin (2016)
 * Appendix:Proto-West Mande reconstructions - Kastenholz (1996) [in German]
 * Appendix:Proto-Mandekan reconstructions - Bimson (1976)
 * Appendix:Proto-Niger-Volta reconstructions - Schreiber (2008) [in German]
 * Appendix:Proto-South Mande reconstructions - Vydrin (2005, 2007)
 * Atlantic languages
 * Appendix:Proto-Fula-Sereer reconstructions - Pozdniakov (2022)
 * Appendix:Proto-Cangin reconstructions - Merrill (2018)
 * Appendix:Bijogo word list - Segerer (2002) [in French]
 * Appendix:Proto-Manjaku reconstructions - Doneux (1975) [in French]
 * Appendix:Word lists of Atlantic languages of Guinea - Fields (2001)
 * Kordofanian languages
 * Appendix:Proto-Talodi reconstructions - Norton & Alaki (2015)
 * Appendix:Proto-Heiban reconstructions - Schadeberg (1981)
 * Appendix:Proto-Katloid reconstructions - Dimmendaal (2019)
 * Appendix:Rashad word lists - Schadeberg (2013)
 * Appendix:Lafofa word lists - Blench (2016)

Afroasiatic

 * Appendix:Proto-Afroasiatic reconstructions - Ehret (1995)
 * Appendix:Proto-Chadic reconstructions - Jungraithmayr & Ibriszimow (1994)
 * Appendix:Proto-Ron reconstructions - Blench (n.d.)
 * Appendix:Proto-North Bauchi reconstructions - Takács (2004)
 * Appendix:Proto-South Bauchi reconstructions - Shimizu (1978)
 * Appendix:South Bauchi word lists - Shimizu (1978)
 * Appendix:Proto-Central Chadic reconstructions - Gravina (2014)
 * Appendix:Proto-Masa reconstructions - Shryock (1997)
 * Appendix:Kujarge word list - Doornbos (1981)
 * Appendix:Proto-Cushitic reconstructions - Ehret (1987); Bender (2020)
 * Appendix:Proto-Agaw reconstructions - Appleyard (2006)
 * Appendix:Proto-Omotic reconstructions - Bender (1987)
 * Appendix:Proto-Aroid reconstructions - Yigezu (2013)
 * Appendix:Proto-Maji reconstructions - Aklilu (2003)
 * Appendix:Mao word lists - Küspert (2015) [in Amharic, Oromo, and English]
 * Appendix:Proto-Semitic stems - Kogan (2012)

Khoisan

 * Appendix:Khoisan word lists (ru) - Starostin (2013) [in Russian]
 * Appendix:Proto-Khoe reconstructions - Vossen (1997) [in German]
 * Appendix:Proto-Central Khoisan reconstructions - Baucom (1974)
 * Appendix:Proto-Tuu reconstructions - Güldemann (2005); Starostin (2021)
 * Appendix:!Kung word lists - Snyman (1997)

Language isolates

 * Appendix:Bangime word list - Heath (2013)
 * Appendix:Jalaa word list - Kleinewillinghöfer (2001)
 * Appendix:Laal Swadesh list - Lionnet (n.d.) [in French and English]
 * Appendix:Ongota word list - Wedekind (2001)
 * Appendix:Shabo word list - Jordan, et al. (2015)
 * Appendix:Sandawe word list - Eaton, et al. (2007)
 * Appendix:Hadza word list - Miller (2019)

Others

 * Appendix:Proto-Niger-Saharan reconstructions - Blench (2006)