He's met with shock and surprise whenever he opens his mouth because the clicks just roll off his tongue. German student Noah Baier (24) spent a year mastering the art of speaking and writing isiXhosa ...

Tool development for the Nguni group of languages – and isiZulu and isiXhosa in particular – wasn't simply a case of copy-and-pasting tools from English.

Many African languages are still finding the words to talk about homosexuality. The isiXhosa equivalent for gay or homosexual does not exist, so how do isiXhosa-speaking South African talk about ...

The development and advancement of indigenous African languages in South Africa's court system is not negotiable, Judge President Mandlakayise Hlophe has said.

That’s why we have been laying both theoretical foundations and creating proof-of-concept tools for several South African languages. This includes spellcheckers for isiZulu and isiXhosa and the ...

A high school teacher from East London has made history by being the first Fort Hare PhD student to write her thesis in isiXhosa.

The development of the first isiXhosa chess terminology book in the country, titled Masidlale Uthimba, aims to help end the stereotype that the game is foreign and can only be played by a select ...

Legendary broadcaster Themba Makeleni honoured for his presentations in isiXhosa by the South African Traditional Music Achievement Awards (Satma).

The problems of finding acceptable isiXhosa expressions for 21st Century political vocabulary came under the spotlight at an isiXhosa terminology workshop in Cape Town. The workshop is trying to ...

Black Panther star Lupita Nyong’o says it took her months to learn how to speak isiXhosa for the movie. The Academy Award-winning actress and another of the blockbuster’s cast, Danai Gurira ...

Missionaries and African translators working on local versions of the Bible divided South Africa’s ethnic groups by language.