Hausa serves as a trade and media language across West Africa. Hausa has a rich oral tradition of storytelling and poetry. It is written in both Arabic (Ajami) and Latin-based script. Hausa is ...

A creole language forms when two different languages mix into a new language, like Haitian Creole which is a mixture of French and West African languages, and Jamaican Patois, a mix of English and ...

Africa, a continent with over 2,000 languages, has largely been overlooked in AI training. The project will launch next year and initially focus on two West African languages: Wolof and Pulaar.

They are Hausa, Portuguese for Africa, Somali, Kinyarwanda and Kirundi. All these language guides draw on the rich experience and expertise of BBC journalists built up over many years. The BBC is ...

In this conceptual context, which looks at cities in Africa from the point of view of language sociology, two large phases of urbanization can be distinguished in Africa. The first phase is related to ...

Her research and teaching focus on the description and documentation of West African languages in their cultural contexts, with a focus on Mande and Atlantic languages. From a language-focused outlook ...

At least, that is, so long as you speak English or another of the world’s dominant languages. But try talking to your phone in Yoruba, Igbo or any number of widely spoken African languages and ...