(MENAFN- The Conversation) Africa is humankind's home continent. Homo sapiens , with the anatomical and cognitive capacity to have human language as we know it today, originated in Africa between ...

The University of Colorado Linguistics Department is seeking speakers of hitherto un-described African languages to participate in research projects whose aim is to produce descriptions of those ...

CU Linguistics professor Zygmunt Frajyzngier and an international team of researchers have produced a landmark dictionary of the Chadic language Hdi. The book is the first trilingual dictionary of ...

There is a lot we don’t know about African languages. But retired university lecturer Dr Paul Tench has seen more than most. There is a lot we don’t know about African languages. But retired ...

Correction to: Eur J Hum Genet advance online publication, 6 January 2010; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2009.231 (1) In the Abstract, on line 12, ‘9200–5600 kya’ should be ...

Africa is humankind's home continent. Homo sapiens, with the anatomical and cognitive capacity to have human language as we know it today, originated in Africa between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago.

In 2004, I worked with a group of men who spoke Tera, on the western fringe of that Chadic language area. The speakers of the neighbouring languages couldn’t get their tongues around this distinctive ...