Prince A. Williams ’25, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a History concentrator in Adams House. Before my sophomore year, I was terrified of deciding what foreign language to take. The idea of learning ...

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 ...

Google has launched WAXAL, a large-scale AI speech dataset designed to support 21 African languages spoken by more than 100 ...

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"We want to improve the visibility and representation of African languages on the Internet," explained Bonaventure. Discoverability is limited not only because English dominates machine learning ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — 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, so ...

At its annual Duocon conference on Friday, Duolingo announced several updates for the language-learning app. Among them is a family plan, which gives up to six people access to Duolingo Plus with a ...

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 ...

While this representation is a huge victory, many African animators’ quest for representation goes beyond just having characters who look like them. Animation has also become a tool for preserving ...

BBC Studios’ Bluey has been dubbed in four spoken African languages: Zulu, Afrikaans, Swahili and Nigerian Pidgin. “Bluey has always celebrated the magic of everyday family life, and now, more ...