The new Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Abimbola Akeem Owoade, officially ascends the throne of his fathers today in Oyo town, Oyo State. In this exclusive interview by LASISI OLAGUNJU and SAM NWAOKO, he speaks ...

A budding singer, Ajanaku, has said that he blends Yoruba and English languages to create a unique sound that sets him aside ...

Top of the pops is Arabic, spoken by some 150 million people across the continent. It’s the liturgical language of Islam and ...

Meanwhile, both Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are home to over 200 languages. In Cameroon, Bulu, Beti ...

The primary languages that survive in Brazil are Yoruba, Fon, Kimbundu and Kikongo, the last two hailing from the Bantu linguistic group, which is has had the greatest influence on modern-day speech.

The Oodua Youth Coalition has asked the South West governors to make Yoruba a compulsory subject in public schools to ensure promotion of Yoruba language. In a communique issued at the end of its ...

The Oodua Youth Coalition has called on the South West governors to make Yoruba a compulsory subject in public schools to ensure the promotion of the Yoruba language, saying that people are better ...

So far, budgerigars are the only animals known to have language-producing centers akin to those in humans, says Michael Long, a neuroscientist at New York University Langone Health. This “is ...

By Crispin Sartwell Not a day goes by that speakers of the Yoruba language do not make mention of death as both a phenomenon and a certainty. By George Yancy Five years after his death ...

The story so far: Tamil Nadu’s resistance to adopting the three-language policy as mandated under the National Education Policy (NEP, 2020) has brought the age-old language debate back under the ...

The language structure is similar across all the dialects, although there are some different syntactic arrangements. Our findings show that Ifè dialect has the highest degree of similarity with ...