Is French a foreign language in Africa? by J Baghana, E V Khapilina

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COVID-19 Information on YouTube: Analysis of Quality and Reliability of Videos in Eleven Widely Spoken Languages across Africa by Kapil Narain, Kingsley Appiah Bimpong, O’Neil Kosasia Wamukota, Oloruntoba Ogunfolaji, Udeme-Abasi U. Nelson, Anirban Dutta, Ayodeji Ogunleye, Eileen van der Westhuizen, Emmanuel Eni, Almthani Hamza Abdalrheem, Samuel Mesfin, Aimée Bernice Munezero, Nazo Nxumalo, Okuhle Xozwa

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...Brenzinger, M., 1998, Endangered Languages in Africa, Kôln: Rüdiger Kôppe Verlag. Dalby, D., 1977, Language Map of Africa and the Adjacent Islands, London: International African Institute. ... by Nina Pawlak

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A comparative study of learning outcomes for hearing-impaired foundation phase learners by Aisha Casoojee, Katijah Khoza-Shangase, Amisha Kanji

Subjects: “…listening and spoken language – south africa…”
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Critical perspectives on language planning and policy in Africa: accounting for the notion of multilingualism by Banda, Felix

“…Drawing on illustrations from Ethnologue's (2009) languages of Africa, studies on language planning and policy in Africa, and recent developments in harmonisation of cross-border language research (Prah 1998; Banda 2008), the paper argues that there are distortions in the conceptualisation of multilingualism and what it entails in Africa's socio-cultural contexts. …”
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The Ramifications of the Neglect of Indigenous South African Languages by the South African Government: COVID-19 as a Case Study by Mlamli Diko

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The Ramifications of the Neglect of Indigenous South African Languages by the South African Government: COVID-19 as a Case Study by Mlamli Diko

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Pedagogical inspection in Africa: News and empowerment for a teaching / learning of quality languages by Papa Mamour DIOP, Eugénie EYEANG

“…The objective of this research is to present the profile of the pedagogical inspectors, show their tasks and outline guidelines for an improvement of the quality of the teaching of languages in Africa.<br />To investigate the roles of the pedagogical inspector, we took advantage of the theoretical models of Pérez García (2004) and Poggi et al. (2006) as support for the frame of reference. …”
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Ahmadu Kuruma’s Novel Allah n’est pas oblige - As an Example of a Polylingual Text by Yaya Traore

“…Writing in the ethnic languages of Africa arose relatively recently on a historical scale, so local writers used the languages of the colonialists in their works of fiction. …”
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Production Is Only Half the Story — First Words in Two East African Languages by Katherine J. Alcock

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A review of Yorùbá Automatic Speech Recognition by Mohd Yusof, Shahrul Azmi, Atanda, Abdulwahab F., Hariharan, M.

“…Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has recorded appreciable progress both in technology and application.Despite this progress, there still exist wide performance gap between human speech recognition (HSR) and ASR which has inhibited its full adoption in real life situation.A brief review of research progress on Yorùbá Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is presented in this paper focusing of variability as factor contributing to performance gap between HSR and ASR with a view of x-raying the advances recorded, major obstacles, and chart a way forward for development of ASR for Yorùbá that is comparable to those of other tone languages and of developed nations.This is done through extensive surveys of literatures on ASR with focus on Yorùbá.Though appreciable progress has been recorded in advancement of ASR in the developed world, reverse is the case for most of the developing nations especially those of Africa.Yorùbá like most of languages in Africa lacks both human and materials resources needed for the development of functional ASR system much less taking advantage of its potentials benefits. …”
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Syllable Structure in Setswana Personal Names by Boikanyego Sebina, Thapelo Joseph Otlogetswe

“…The study analyses the characteristics of syllables in personal names of the Setswana (Tswana) language (Sotho subgroup of the Bantu languages, Southern Africa). The authors focus on 1,001 most frequent names extracted from a dataset of 1,093,265 names using Wordsmith Tools. …”
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Early humans out of Africa had only base-initial numerals by One-Soon Her, Yung-Ping Liang, Eugene Chan, Hung-Hsin Hsu, Anthony Chi-Pin Hsu, Marc Allassonnière-Tang

“…Finally, results from a phylogenetic analysis based on a global tree of human languages show that the base-initial order is more stable diachronically and more likely to be at the root of the reconstructed tree of languages in Africa between 100 and 150 thousand years ago. …”
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Publishing sub-Saharan Africa in Paris 1945 - 67 by Bush, R

La diffusione della lingua e cultura italiana in Mozambico: 2008- 2012 by Rizza, Anna

“… Africa is today one of the ‘emergent markets’ for Italian as a foreign language. In Africa, Mozambique holds a relevant position as far as Italian as a foreign language is concerned, as a consequence of the role that Italy has played in the appeasement process at the turn of the century. …”
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Erratum: Conducting clinical research in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges and lessons for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology research by Katijah Khoza-Shangase, Nomfundo Moroe, Ben Sebothoma

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Language Dynamics as an Interpersonal Phenomenon by Blessed Frederick Ngonso, Peter Eshioke Egielewa

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Conducting clinical research in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges and lessons for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology research by Katijah Khoza-Shangase, Nomfundo Monroe, Ben Sebothoma

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Poetically Africa dwells: A dialogue between Heidegger�s understanding of language as the house of Being and African Being-with (<i>ubuntu</i>) as a possible paradigm for postfound... by Johann-Albrecht Meylahn

“…I specifically brought into dialogue Heidegger�s understanding of language and the poetics of Being, with <em>ubuntu</em>, interpreted as Being-with [<em>mit-Sein</em>] and how African <em>ubuntu</em> can be interpreted as being <em>of</em> language � poetically Africa dwells-with-others. This dialogue in Africa with Africa, <em>on</em> and <em>of</em> the <em>house of Being</em>, can only but <em>�gift�</em> practical theology with new perspectives and paradigms, because practical theology can be understood as a critical theological reflection on the word event (language event) in the various sub-disciplines of practical theology (homiletics, pastorate, liturgics and diaconical ministry), responding to the Word event of Scripture as the written said in answer to the Divine <em>saying</em>.…”
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Little genetic differentiation as assessed by uniparental markers in the presence of substantial language variation in peoples of the Cross River region of Nigeria. by Veeramah, K, Connell, B, Ansari Pour, N, Powell, A, Plaster, C, Zeitlyn, D, Mendell, N, Weale, M, Bradman, N, Thomas, MG

“…CONCLUSIONS: Previous studies have found significant correlations between genetic variation and language in Africa over large geographic distances, often across language families. …”