BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Much research addresses how and why many of the earth's thousands of languages are disappearing. The question still arises, however, as to why it should matter to the rest of us if, ...

Some Bantu languages spoken in southwestern Zambia and neighboring regions of Botswana, Namibia, and Angola are characterized by the presence of click consonants, whereas their closest linguistic ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 32 (August 9, 2022), pp. 1-9 (9 pages) The Bantu expansion transformed the linguistic, economic, and ...

“To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world,” reads an old Cantonese adage. Connie (@ShonaGirl_), a young Zimbabwean fundraiser for non-profit organisations and ...

In many languages across the world, speakers use intonation to focus on relevant information: ‘Father cooked the sauce’. Speakers may also use a specific sentence structure to mark focus: ‘It was ...

The hunter-gatherer and pastoralist peoples of southern Africa who speak indigenous non-Bantu languages called Khoisan have intrigued researchers for a long time because their languages contain highly ...

Grammatical descriptions of Mara Bantu languages, isiNdebele, Nzadi, and Totela (Bantu), Uduk (Nilo-Saharan), Mano (Mande), Somali Nominal classification in Atlantic languages Tense, aspect and ...

The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies is the leading interdisciplinary journal on Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East. It carries unparalleled coverage of the languages, ...

Everton’s Yannick Bolasie, left, celebrates scoring his side’s first goal of the game with team-mate Romelu Lukaku during the English Premier League soccer match at Turf Moor, Burnley, England, ...