SA universities, international institutions partner on project to preserve African languages

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Rhodes University has collaborated with local and foreign universities in an effort to revive and preserve indigenous African languages.

Rhodes University’s African languages associate professor Dion Nkomo said since the project started at the beginning of the year, they had managed to invite interest from academics for collaboration.

Nkomo said as part of the project, Rhodes University would establish a Rhodes University African Languages Development Unit , which would contribute towards implementing the university’s language policy. He said training of academics and tutors in multilingual teaching methods would be top of the agenda.

“The funders have approved our equipment list and budget. We are in the process of procuring the relevant equipment which will enable the production of multilingual audio-visual and subtitled lectures and multilingual annotations on key readings available in PDF format and multilingual glossaries, in addition to the usual translation of teaching materials such as course outlines, readings and assessments,” said Nkomo.

 

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