

I am Yorùbá, but I cannot speak my language
Alum Yewá Ogunseye talks about her experience of learning Yorùbá at SOAS.
Alum Yewá Ogunseye talks about her experience of learning Yorùbá at SOAS.
Celebrating Professor Philip Jaggar’s 75th year, presenting a retrospective look on his life and his work around the Hausa language.
Find out more about language activism at the SOAS Webinar: Promoting Your Language on Social Media.
“Covid-19 campaigns across Africa respond to another key aspect of African societies: multilingualism.
The creation of ever more multi-layered fictional realms is leading to a rise in the number of constructed languages.
Exploring varied aspects of translation work at the Centre for Translation Studies.
Linguist expert urges minority language speakers to “use their languages more” online.
MA Translation students Luna Chiaverini and Megumi Sakata discuss video game localization and International Women’s Day protests.
Dr Christopher Lucas explains how attitudes can get transferred onto language.
“I recommend acquainting yourself early on with some of the major controversies in the field of linguistics…then… investigate two of the most fascinating questions in language: why do languages change, and how does the language you speak influence the way you think?”
SOAS student Mattho Mandersloot wins the WLT Translation Prize for his translation of Zopor
To mark National Poetry Day, Southbank Centre launches a major new project to collect and preserve poems in endangered languages.
Come join in on the fun on 26 September at SOAS!
Received Pronunciation (RP) is under attack. The assailant? It comes in the form of Multicultural London English (MLE).
Sarah Pett, lecturer in English at SOAS, questions the very parameters of what we think as ‘African Literature’ and offers up her top reads
The European Day of Languages is celebrated on 26th September each year. It is a time to celebrate the wealth of languages spoken all around
The Caine Prize for African Writing is an annual literature prize awarded to the writer of an African short story published in English. The prize