Blench's proposal that Chadic arrived with pastoralism involving goats, a way of life that spread from the Middle East, probably initially along the eastern side of the Nile, therefore matches the DNA ...

CU Linguistics professor Zygmunt Frajyzngier and an international team of researchers have produced a landmark dictionary of the Chadic language Hdi. The book is the first trilingual dictionary of ...

The University of Colorado Linguistics Department is seeking speakers of hitherto un-described African languages to participate in research projects whose aim is to produce descriptions of those ...

Hausa language is a Chadic language, which is a branch of the Afroasiatic language family and is spoken as a first language by no fewer than 35 million people, and a second language by at least 41 ...

Africa is humankind's home continent. Homo sapiens, with the anatomical and cognitive capacity to have human language as we know it today, originated in Africa between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago.

Correction to: Eur J Hum Genet advance online publication, 6 January 2010; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2009.231 (1) In the Abstract, on line 12, ‘9200–5600 kya’ should be ...