The Africa Alphabet ( also International African Alphabet or IAI alphabet ) was developed in 1928 under the lead of Diedrich Westermann.

Westermann's 1911 Die Sudanic languages | Sudansprachen. Diedrich Hermann Westermann ( June 24, 1875 – May 31, 1956 ) was a German missionary, Africanist, and linguist.

* Westermann, Diedrich H. ( 1912 ) The Shilluk People.

* Westermann, Diedrich H. ( 1925 ) Das Tschi und Guang.

* Westermann, Diedrich H. ( 1926a ) Das Ibo in Nigerien.

* Westermann, Diedrich H. ( 1926b ) Das Edo in Nigerien.

* Westermann, Diedrich H. ( 1927a ) ' Die westlichen Sudansprachen und ihre Beziehungen zum Bantu ' Berlin: de Gruyter.

* Westermann, Diedrich H. ( 1927b ) Das Nupe in Nigerien.

* Westermann, Diedrich H. ( 1928 ) Die westatlantische Gruppe der Sudansprachen.

* Westermann, Diedrich Hermann & Ward, Ida C. ( 1933 ) Practical phonetics for students of African languages.

* Westermann, Diedrich H. ( 1948 ).

* Westermann, Diedrich H. ( 1949 ).

* Westermann, Diedrich H. ( 1952 ).

* Westermann, Diedrich H. ( 1964 ).

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Diedrich Hermann Westermann was co-director from 1926 to 1939.

The first inklings of a wider family came in 1912, when Diedrich Westermann included three of the ( still independent ) Central Sudanic families within Nilotic in a proposal he called Niloto-Sudanic ; this expanded Nilotic was in turn linked to Nubian, Kunama, and possibly Berta, essentially Greenberg's Macro-Sudanic ( Chari – Nile ) proposal of 1954.

* May 31 – Diedrich Hermann Westermann, German linguist ( b. 1875 )

* June 24 – Diedrich Westermann, German linguist ( d. 1956 )

* Westermann, Diedrich & Bryan, M. A.

* 1976 ( 37th ) — Richard Artschwager, Charles Garabedian, Robert Irwin, Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Robert Motherwell, Ed Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Joel Shapiro, Richard Tuttle, Andy Warhol, H. C. Westermann

* H. C. Westermann ( 1922 – 1981 ), an American sculptor and printmaker.

* H. C. Westermann ( 1922 – 1981 ), American sculptor.

A. Westermann gave a revised edition of it in his ( Scriptores rerum mirabilium Graeci, " Greek marvel-writers ") in 1839.

Westermann is seen as one of the founders of modern African linguistics.

In this book and a series of associated articles between 1925 and 1928, Westermann both identified a large number of roots that form the basis of our understanding of Niger – Congo and set out the evidence for the coherence of many of the families that constitute it.

Much of the classification of African languages associated with Joseph Greenberg actually derives from the work of Westermann.

In 1927 Westermann published a Practical Orthography of African Languages which became later known as the Westermann script.

In his 1935 ' Character und Einteilung der Sudansprachen ', Westermann conclusively established the relationship between Bantu and West Sudanic.

Westermann, a pupil of Meinhof, set out to establish the internal classification of the then Sudanic languages.

Westermann, pupil of Carl Meinhof, carried out comparative linguistic research on the then Sudanic languages during the first half of the twentieth century.

Westermann, in his classification of the then Sudanic languages, adopted the grouping but called it Togorestsprachen.

In the influential classifications of Westermann ( 1927, 1970 ) and Bendor-Samuel ( 1971 ), the Senufo languages were classified as Gur languages.

In 1952 Westermann and Bryan expanded Kwa to the various Lagoon languages of southern Ivory Coast and to what are now called the Volta – Niger languages of southern Nigeria.

Greenberg ( 1963 ) added the Kru languages of Liberia, the Ghana – Togo Mountain languages which Westermann and Bryan had specifically excluded, and Ijaw of the Niger delta ; West Kwa included the languages from Liberia to Dahomey ( Republic of Benin ), and East Kwa the languages of Nigeria.

The German Africanist Diedrich Hermann Westermann published many dictionaries and grammars of Ewe and several other Gbe languages.

Westermann in his classification of West-African languages, also grouped Nafaanra with Senufo, apparently based on the word list found in Rapp.

Westermann included Logba in his group of Togo Restsprachen ( Togo Remnant languages ), a terminology adopted by several subsequent researchers.

Her 1933 collaboration with Diedrich Hermann Westermann, Practical Phonetics for Students of African languages, was reprinted many times.

* Westermann, Diedrich Hermann & Ward, Ida C. ( 1933 ) Practical phonetics for students of African languages.

The languages of the two ethnic groups bear such a close resemblance that researchers such as Forde ( 1951 ) and Westermann and Bryan ( 1952 ) regarded Igala as a dialect of Yoruba.