IN 1991 AMERICAN audiences had an introduction to Xhosa, one of South Africa’s most click-filled languages, when Miriam Makeba (pictured) appeared on “The Cosby Show”. When the celebrated South ...
In her humble home on the red soil of the Green Kalahari, 92-year-old Katrina Esau listened intently as her two ...
TWO AND a half millennia ago the San had southern Africa to themselves, living lightly on the land as hunter-gatherers. Then came the Khoekhoen from the north-east to wrest some of the San’s hunting ...
Language constructors for the movies started with words Frank Herbert made up for his 1965 novel but went much further, creating an extensive vocabulary and specific grammar rules. By Marc Tracy In ...
Joshua Bell, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, says that many people still consider monolingualism to be the norm. He and his team hope to dispel that myth ...
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