Tag: Africa
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Language of the Week #8: Tamazight
ⴰⵏⵙⵓⴼ ⵢⴰⵏⴽⵏ (Welcome) to this next article in the Language of the Week series. Today, we’ll be discussing Tamazight, ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖ, a language family spoken throughout North Africa. It is hard to discuss the Tamazight languages independently, so I’ve decided to cover them all together. However, it is important to note that the multiple Tamazight languages…
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Language of the Week #3: Swahili
Up next on our linguistic tour du monde, we head to the East African Community (EAC) with its lingua franca of choice, Swahili. The Bantu languages stretch far and wide from the southern tip of the continent up as far north as Cameroon. The basics The Bantu languages are an incredibly diverse and historically rich…
