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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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