The linguistic landscape is far more complicated than it first appears, with many isolated languages and sub-families that ...

An incredible map shows the most widely spoken languages in each country in Africa. There are believed to be between 1,000 and 2,000 distinct languages across the continent, which have roots in ...

These maps from Harvard's AfricaMap project illustrate just how diverse the African continent really is, including its thousands of languages and ethnic groups, incredible biodiversity and the ...

DURBAN - Google web mapping service, Google Maps, has added three African languages Afrikaans, Swahili and IsiZulu to its service. Altogether the mapping service made an addition of 39 new ...

Africa is a continent rich with language diversity, with around 2,000 languages thought to be in use. All are considered official languages of the African Union. Nigeria alone has over 500 living ...

"The history of the African continent and in general in colonized countries, is that when language had to be translated ... and accent used in tools like maps. But he said it remains difficult ...

A Sketch of the Modern Languages of Africa, accompanied by a Language Map. By Robert Needham Cust. 2 vols. (London: Trübner, 1883.) ...