When and where did human speech evolve? Research carried out for this study indicates that the first speech sounds were uttered about 70,000 years ago, and not hundreds of thousands or millions of ...

Scientists record 9,000 hours of languages spoken in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa as free-access training data for AI models. More than 2,000 languages spoken in Africa are being neglected in the ...

However, many languages around Africa are disappearing at an alarming rate. Some have already ceased to be spoken, becoming languages of the past, while others are spoken by only a handful of people ...

Songbo Hu currently receives funding from the Cambridge Trust. Anna Barford currently receives funding from UKRI and the Mastercard Foundation. She has previously received funding from the the British ...

As iPendoring celebrates three decades, an Imbizo, awards ceremony and student radio challenge put South Africa’s indigenous ...

UPINGTON, South Africa, May 11 (Reuters) - When she was a girl in South Africa's Northern Cape, Katrina Esau stopped speaking her mother tongue, N|uu, after being mocked by other people and told it ...

University of the Free State provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Sign language is on its way to become the 12th official language in South Africa after parliament recently agreed ...

When Black Panther hit theaters in 2018, the excitement was palpable. Aside from the fact that it was the first big-budget superhero movie with an all-Black cast, its Afrofuturist appeal, stunning ...