As Nelson Mandela's death is mourned and his life and legacy celebrated in South Africa and around the world, the BBC's Pronunciation Unit has been advising broadcasters on the pronunciation of South ...

The beautiful thing about history is that it can help us develop a more complex understanding of the things we consider natural in our daily lives. People like to believe that their languages have ...

A Xhosa language school in Cape Town has ventured onto the social networking scene, for a different reason than most, namely to teach language. Building a fluent nation, one tweet at a time In 2009 ...

IN 1991 AMERICAN audiences had an introduction to Xhosa, one of South Africa’s most click-filled languages, when Miriam Makeba (pictured) appeared on “The Cosby Show”. When the celebrated South ...

Cape Town - Xhosa speakers will soon have access to the Firefox web browser in their own language, thanks to a language services company. Rubric has donated its translation services to make the ...

It is appropriate that the opening track on King Of Xhosa, is a hand drum invocation and an introduction in the Xhosa language of South Africa, as that is exactly where the origins and influences of ...

The Xhosa live in south-east South Africa, and in the last two centuries, throughout the southern and central-southern parts of the country. The Xhosa people are divided into several tribes with ...

“Growing up as a young boy in Wakanda, I would see King T’Challa flying over our village, and he would remind me of a great Xhosa phrase, ‘abelungu abazi ubu ndiyaxoka’, which means, ‘In times like ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) South Africa has 12 official languages . The two most dominant are isizulu and isixhosa . While the zulu and xhosa people share a rich common history, they have also found ...

As Nelson Mandela's death is mourned and his life and legacy celebrated in South Africa and around the world, the BBC's Pronunciation Unit has been advising broadcasters on the pronunciation of South ...