Julie Sedivy is the lead author of Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to You And What This Says About You. She contributes regularly to Psychology Today and Language Log. She is an adjunct ...

IN 1991 AMERICAN audiences had an introduction to Xhosa, one of South Africa’s most click-filled languages, when Miriam Makeba (pictured) appeared on “The Cosby Show”. When the celebrated South ...

Black Panther star Lupita Nyong’o says it took her months to learn how to speak isiXhosa for the movie. The Academy Award-winning actress and another of the blockbuster’s cast, Danai Gurira, were in ...

Funded partially by the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), the free, open-source and user-friendly dictionary allows users to search for a word by simply typing either the ...