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One who closed-mindedly insists on only knowing and communicating in one language (ie, English), despite inhabiting a multilingual world. Evidenced and furthered in the U.S. by English-only policies, ...

Kinyarwanda

Language; Language learning

A Rwandan official language, spoken by some 12 million people in Rwanda. Kinyarwanda uses 16 of the bantu noun classes (a category of nouns used in the bantu languages).

Yoruba

Language; Language learning

Yoruba is a Niger-Congo language spoken in West Africa. It is a tonal language spoken by the Yoruba people in Nigeria Benin, and Togo and it dates to deep prehistory. As a continuum of several ...

Oromo

Language; Language learning

Called an Afro-Asiatic language, Oromo is the most populous langiage in Ethopia. It is also spoken in Somalia and parts of Kenya. 95 percent of the speakers live in Ethiopia, mainly in the Oromia ...

Amharic

Language; Language learning

Amharic is a semantic language spoken in Etheopia, infact, it is the second most spoken semantic language in the world, after Arabic. It is the official language of the Rederal Democratic Republic of ...

Bambara

Language; Language learning

Spoken in Mali, Bambara is a language also spoken in Burkina Faso, and Senegal to a lesser extent. It serves as a lingua franca in Mali where 80 percent of the people speak it as a first or second ...

Nilo-Saharan languages

Language; Language learning

Nilo-Saharan is extremely diverse and thus a somewhat controversial grouping uniting over a hundred languages from southern Egypt to northern Tanzania and into Nigeria and DR Congo, with the Songhay ...