Ibrahima and Abdoulaye Barry have partnered with Microsoft and McCann NY to preserve the language, Pulaar, spoken by the Fulani people of West Africa. They have launched ADLam Display, which is a ...

Much of the developed world communicates online. Yet some widely spoken languages have never been transcribed, let alone digitized. Without it, native languages face the risk of disappearing. This is ...

The current Gikuyu alphabet was intended to represent Gikuyu linguistic morphology. When white missionaries arrived in Kenya, they had to translate the Bible into local languages.

Authorities in Oromia, Ethiopia’s largest state, have infuriated language experts and Oromo nationalists with their decision to re-arrange the order of the alphabet of the region’s language, Afan ...