News tagged with african language

'Black Africans' in Britain: Integration or segregation?

A new study shows that the ability of "black Africans" settling in the UK to integrate with society varies according to their national and ethnic background.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 24, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scholar helps classify clicks in African languages

(PhysOrg.com) -- Linguistics scholar Amanda Miller is doing research with high-speed ultrasound technology to help her and fellow researchers successfully record and classify clicks in an endangered African ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Classifying 'clicks'

A new way to classify sounds in some human languages may solve a problem that has plagued linguists for nearly 100 years--how to accurately describe click sounds distinct to certain African languages.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Language diversity will make London a true global player

Understanding linguistic diversity among London's schoolchildren is key for the city's future as a 'global player', research shows. A study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) mapped the distribution ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Indonesian 'Eves' colonised Madagascar 1,200 years ago

Several dozen Indonesian women founded the colonisation of Madagascar 1,200 years ago, scientists said on Wednesday in a probe into one of the strangest episodes in the human odyssey.

Biology / Other

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 5

Minority administrators, school personnel key to engaging immigrant parents

Minority principals and other administrative personnel at elementary and high schools play a key role in implementing policies and practices aimed at engaging immigrant parents of students, according to new research from ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Princeton system tracks drought to aid disaster relief

Drought is often the precursor to disaster, but getting leads on its stealthy approach through remote or war-torn areas can be so difficult that relief agencies sometimes have little time to react before a ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Out of Africa? Data fail to support language origin in Africa

Last year, a report claiming to support the idea that the origin of language can be traced to West Africa appeared in Science. The article caused quite a stir. Now linguist Michael Cysouw from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Mun ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Racial identity is changing among Latinos

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a paper published in Social Science Research, USC Dornsife’s Amon Emeka and Jody Agius Vallejo look at why many people with Latin American ancestry are not identifying themselves as His ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

New forms of torture leave 'invisible scars', say researchers

Use of torture around the world has not diminished but the techniques used have grown more complex and sophisticated, according to new research from Queen Mary, University of London.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 81

Conference in overtime on future of climate talks

(AP) -- Deep into overtime, negotiators from 194 nations worked straight through a second night, parsing drafts and seeking compromises to map out the future pathway to fight global warming.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Research examines a growing immigrant population's self employment in the US

For a growing immigrant community in the United States, setting up shop means blending tools of the trade from home with discoveries made in the new country, and there's a strategy that's threading through an array of small ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Industry says Africa fastest growing mobile market

(AP) -- Sure, 24-year-old Gertrude Kitongo cherishes a cell phone as a link to family and friends, from her grandmother in a Ugandan village to former schoolmates in Zimbabwe.

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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