The South Africa population reached 63.52 million in 2026. This guide covers its four groups, 12 languages, faiths, migrants and the US link.

When people talk about artificial intelligence and language, the focus usually defaults to English, a handful of European languages and perhaps a few from Asia. African languages – thousands of them, ...

Imagine receiving a letter informing you that your social grant application has been rejected. The letter is written in technical English and refers to regulations you have never seen. It states that ...

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The Gates Foundation and other donors from the AI for Development Funders Collaborative are pledging $10 million to ensure AI models are more inclusive of African languages. Devex spoke with experts ...

It’s 50 years since the Soweto uprising in South Africa. On 16 June 1976, tens of thousands of young black South Africans protested against being taught in the Afrikaans language (alongside English) ...

The major in Linguistics & African Languages enables students to combine the study of human language from a diversity of perspectives with the study of one or more African languages in cultural and ...