Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deaf students at the Khulani Special School learning sign language. Leisa Tyler/LightRocket via Getty Images What was the process ...

The African Next Voices project has started out with sites in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. Iuliia Anisimova/iStock Language is how we interact, ask for help, and hold meaning in community. We use ...

In her humble home on the red soil of the Green Kalahari, 92-year-old Katrina Esau listened intently as her two great-grandchildren practised the ancient N|uu language of South Africa's indigenous San ...

Experts say content creators on TikTok are increasingly helping to promote everyday use of indigenous languages, often through digital content centred on traditional food, farming and humour.

African languages are still struggling as subjects and as languages of learning and teaching in our higher education sector.

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 ...