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Translation Africa Blog - January 2016

African Languages poorly represented on Wiki

African Languages poorly represented on Wiki

26/01/2016

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, had recently called for more African users to upload content in African languages. Charlie Fripp from htxt.african investigates whether this has made any difference. At present there are over 5 million articles in the English language, 1.8 million in German, almost 1.3 million in Russian, and 1.2 million in Spanish and Italian….

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Teachers call for investment in African languages

Teachers call for investment in African languages

07/01/2016

SADTU (The South African Democratic Teachers Union) is the latest of voices from the continent calling for more investment and development of indigenous African languages in schools and the education system. In a report from News24 SADTU claims that results from 2015 indicated that language plays a massive role in how successful a pupil is or…

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