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 ...

The underrepresentation of Indigenous African languages online has long been a challenge. In recent years, Africans have taken up the task of bridging this digital divide, recognizing the importance ...

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

Cape Peninsula University of Technology provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. South African indigenous languages are among those at risk of a serious decline due to the increasing ...

The Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, announced the ban on Wednesday during the Language in Education International Conference 2025, organised by the British Council in Abuja. The Nigerian ...

For many African languages there are few written resources online that can be used to train AI. The African Next Voices project is trying to change that by recording underrepresented languages and ...

The tech giant Google announced that 15 more African languages would be added to Voice Search, Gboard talk-to-type, and Translate dictation on October 28. The languages included are Chichewa, Hausa, ...

Delivering the seventh Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair Founders’ Lecture at Unisa, Ambassador Thenjiwe Mtintso challenged South African universities to reclaim African languages as instruments of ...

They went further and used their language to stigmatise indigenous food so that the young generation of Africans would ...

Swahili, also known as Kiswahili, is widely spoken throughout East Africa and serves as a lingua franca in several countries including Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique, and the ...