There’s no original isiZulu word for dinosaur. Germs are called amagciwane, but there are no separate words for viruses or bacteria. A quark is ikhwakhi (pronounced kwa-ki); there is no term for red ...

How do you teach somebody to read a language if there’s nothing for them to read? This is the problem facing developers across the African continent who are trying to train AI to understand and ...

A coalition of African and global partners has launched a collaborative initiative aimed at developing inclusive African large language models (LLMs) to strengthen the continent’s artificial ...

African indigenous language advocates, linguists and volunteers are pushing ahead with making digital platforms and online content more accessible in local languages. Main Languages of the internet: ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Siri or Google Assistant are developed by the global north and trained in English, Chinese or European languages. In comparison, African ...

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This year’s seventh Unisa Chief Albert Luthuli Founders Lecture challenged attendees to reflect on the theme “Reclaiming African Languages: Identity, Knowledge, and Educational Transformation.” ...

JOHANNESBURG/TULSA, April 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The words "facemask" and "hand sanitiser" are now familiar the world over, but for isiZulu speakers in South Africa those terms did not exist ...

As the AI revolution transforms the digital world, millions of people on the African continent cannot tap its full promise because the languages they speak aren’t built into the large language models ...

AI tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Siri or Google Assistant are developed by the Global North and trained in English, Chinese or European languages. In comparison, African languages are largely missing ...