Africa has a wide population with at least 75 languages having more than one million speakers. These languages are grouped into four: Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Afroasiatic, and Khoisan. The ...

Africa's cultural diversity cannot be overstated. Around 2,000 languages are spoken in Africa with Nigerians alone speaking over 250 languages, one of the greatest concentrations of linguistic ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Computers have become amazingly precise at translating spoken words to text messages and scouring huge troves of information for answers to complex questions. At least, that is, ...

But as many African languages are mostly spoken rather than written down, there is a lack of text to train AI on to make it useful for speakers of those languages. For millions across the continent ...

Katrina Esau, the last fluent speaker of South Africa's Njuu language, speaks about the urgency of preserving endangered ...

There’s no original isiZulu word for dinosaur. Germs are called amagciwane, but there are no separate words for viruses or bacteria. A quark is ikhwakhi (pronounced kwa-ki); there is no term for red ...