In this video, we explore these families, from the Niger-Congo languages in the west to the Afro-Asiatic languages in the north and beyond.As we delve deeper into the intricacies of Africa’s ...

Between 1,000 and 2,000 languages are spoken across Africa in comparison to just over 200 in Europe. ... which have roots in the major language families in the world. The map, ...

Greenberg published “The Languages of Africa” shortly after arriving at Stanford in 1962. He chaired the university’s anthropology department from 1971 to 1974 and the Committee on African ...

And the Mande family — I like writing that — is but one example of this tendency to over-lump African languages.Modern linguists have been showing that a great many languages classified as ...

And when the pidgin speakers have children, a more complex language forms, which is known as a creole. This is what happened on the Colombian island of San Andrés in the Caribbean. A mixture of people ...

A University of Kansas professor hopes a new federal grant will help KU become a hub for the study of an African language family and bring more Africans to the university as well. John Gluckman ...

Some children who have grown up in Africa being forced to speak English are facing an identity crisis. Khahliso Amahle Myataza's family is from the South African township of Soweto in Johannesburg ...