The Economist

A language-teaching app tests tongues with Zulu and Xhosa

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 ...
Yahoo

Zulu vs Xhosa: how colonialism used language to divide South Africa's two biggest ethnic groups

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 ...
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Bridging the language divide: Google’s AI glossary in Zulu, Xhosa and Afrikaans

On 15 October 2025, Google South Africa, in collaboration with the Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB), launched a groundbreaking initiative in Johannesburg: a glossary of 100 artificial ...
The Conversation

Zulu vs Xhosa: how colonialism used language to divide South Africa’s two biggest ethnic groups

Jochen S. Arndt received funding from the Social Sciences Research Council, American Historical Association, and Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa. The beautiful thing about ...