Twenty-six projects have been selected under LINGUA Africa, covering more than 50 African languages, dialects and sign ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere, a Swahili advocate. Keystone/Getty Images Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu ...

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 ...

Explore the debate over Sepulana, a language spoken by 800,000 in Mpumalanga, and its quest for official recognition despite ...

AI models can’t understand African languages. Lelapa AI is trying to change that. Inside a co-working space in the Rosebank neighborhood of Johannesburg, Jade Abbott popped open a tab on her computer ...

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 ...

It’s 50 years since the Soweto uprising in South Africa. On 16 June 1976, tens of thousands of young black South Africans protested against being taught in the Afrikaans language (alongside English) ...

How do you teach somebody to read a language if there’s nothing for them to read? This is the problem facing developers across the African continent who are trying to train AI to understand and ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Siri or Google Assistant are developed by the global north and trained in English, Chinese or European languages. In comparison, African ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. The historical lands of the Swahili are on East Africa’s Indian Ocean littoral ...