When Black Panther hit theaters in 2018, the excitement was palpable. Aside from the fact that it was the first big-budget ...

Some Bantu languages spoken in southwestern Zambia and neighboring regions of Botswana, Namibia, and Angola are characterized by the presence of click consonants, whereas their closest linguistic ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 32 (August 9, 2022), pp. 1-9 (9 pages) The Bantu expansion transformed the linguistic, economic, and ...

“To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world,” reads an old Cantonese adage. Connie (@ShonaGirl_), a young Zimbabwean fundraiser for non-profit organisations and ...

In many languages across the world, speakers use intonation to focus on relevant information: ‘Father cooked the sauce’. Speakers may also use a specific sentence structure to mark focus: ‘It was ...

Around 5,000 years ago, the Bantu of west and central Africa moved across the continent, forever changing its language and culture. This is according to new research which has use DNA analysis to ...

Grammatical descriptions of Mara Bantu languages, isiNdebele, Nzadi, and Totela (Bantu), Uduk (Nilo-Saharan), Mano (Mande), Somali Nominal classification in Atlantic languages Tense, aspect and ...