How ironic is it that we can share a town, city or workplace with people every day, yet not be able to greet them in their ...

Funded partially by the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), the free, open-source and user-friendly dictionary allows users to search for a word by simply typing either the ...

Using rules of the language to develop tools Tool development for the Nguni group of languages – and isiZulu and isiXhosa in particular – wasn't simply a case of copy-and-pasting tools from English. I ...

Alice - The IsiXhosa National Language Body (INLB) - which will advise the Pan South African Language Board on all matters concerning isiXhosa nationally - was established at a meeting in Alice this ...

She is passionate about preserving her mother tongue, taking her passion for African languages beyond the shores of South Africa. 33-year-old Andiswa Bukula is proof that a passion for African ...

In a small town just outside East London in the Eastern Cape - the home of the isiXhosa language - leading educational publisher Oxford University Press Southern Africa (OUPSA) continued to boost ...

The latest cinematic offering from Marvel – Black Panther – is causing Africans around the world to swell with pride as the strengths of the continent finally get showcased internationally. Yes, ...

In a move towards promoting multilingualism and inclusivity, the University of Cape Town (UCT) has officially added isiXhosa to its list of official languages. This shift, a major step in the ...

We live in a world where around 7000 languages are spoken, and one where information and communication technologies are becoming increasingly ubiquitous. This puts increasing demands on more, and more ...