Languages of Africa

The Foreign Affairs Minister (MAE) celebrates on Wednesday the International Francophonie Day, with Romania following to host this year several international events which will focus on digital development in the academia of the Francophone states.

The U.S. has made the "only known surviving slave narrative written in Arabic" in the country available on the internet.

A district municipality in western Istanbul has started taking down Arabic shop signs, citing a new regulation stipulating that shop signs must include at least 75 percent Turkish words, Demirören News Agency reported on June 29. 

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, is to spend hundreds of millions of euros boosting the French language worldwide, in a push to overtake English in Africa, increase the use of French online and teach French to more European officials to loosen the grip of the English language on Brussels, reported the Guardian. 

English grammar, beloved by sticklers, is also feared by non-native speakers. Many of its idiosyncrasies can turn into traps even for the most confident users.

But some of the most binding rules in English are things that native speakers know but don’t know they know, even though they use them every day. When someone points one out, it’s like a magical little shock.

The portal Naij.com has become one of the most visited and fast-growing online Nigeria newspapers, and its popularity grows every day.

These great achievements are the result of the diligent work over Naij.com usability and content. Only true professionals in the sphere of programming, design and content writing work on this project.

The English language used to be an asset of the US and UK. Now it has become a weakness.

French linguistic purists voiced online anger on Feb. 4 at the loss of one of their favorite accents -- the pointy little "circumflex" hat that sits on top of certain vowels.

Franco-Moroccan singer and actress Hindi Zahra, will perform in Bulgaria's capital Sofia on Friday.

She is coming to the Sofia Live Club with a band of six musicians.

Marine Le Pen, “superstar” of the French Far Right movement presented herself in a way that very few had seen her before. Wearing a dress which left her shoulders bare, the leader of the far-right National Front, Marine appeared in New York, walking on the red carpet, just a few steps away from Kim Kardashian.