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28 July 2021
Hear how click consonants sound and learn a few greetings in N/uu. Listen here (starting from 19:00 minutes) to the short interview I gave to The Intelligence, a daily podcast of The Economist. |
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12 June 2021
I Newspaper reports on Katrina Esau's tireless efforts to preserve her language and our collaboration with her and her community to produce educational resources for her school. Read the story here. |
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2 June 2021
BBC Travel takes you on a journey to the Northern and Western Cape of South Africa, including to the !Khwa ttu San Heritage Centre. Learn more about our work on N/uu spoken in the Northern Cape here. |
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22 May 2021
The Economist reports on our work with Katrina Esau and her community. Read the story here. |
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20 September 2020
The Sunday Times writes about Katrina Esau, our work on N/uu and an exciting project by the Puku Children's Literature Foundation, who have been working closely with Katrina Esau to publish the first ever children's book written in N/uu (coming out soon!). Read the story here. |
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21 January 2020
BBC Future reports on how many of the world's alphabets are at risk of going extinct, why we should care, and what activists are doing to help. Read my views on this topic in the article here. |
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11 December 2018
Business Day South Africa reports on our work with the last speakers of N/uu. More info here. |
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5 December 2018
Vivere Ancona, a local Italian newspaper in Ancona, reports on the Linguistic Diversity Residency Programme and Workshop, in which eight of us from different parts of the world with different perspectives on languages were invited to participate. This residency programme and workshop was hosted by Linguapax and Faber Residency of Arts, Sciences and Humanities in Spain in November 2018. More info here. |
Matthias Brenzinger collected our award at a ceremony in Anura Wine Estate (Stellenbosch).
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8 September 2017
Our N/uu reader received an award from the Afrikaanse Taal- en Kultuurvereniging (ATKV), the Afrikaans Language and Culture Association, in the category Dictionaries. The R10,000 prize money will help the N/uu language school in Upington (South Africa) to continue with their great work in teaching N/uu to the younger generations. Baie dankie to ATKV! The 2017 ATKV prize winners can be found here. |
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18th July 2016
Joan Hambidge, Professor of Afrikaans and Creative Writing at UCT, acclaimed poet and novelist, wrote a review on the N/uu reader which appeared in the daily Afrikaans-language newspapers Die Burger, Beeld and Volksblad. Read the review here. |
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10 June 2016
Interview with Neo Muyanga (South African composer, musician and cultural activist born in Soweto) on endangered languages. How do languages become extinct? Should we care? Should we try to save them? Listen to the radio interview on CapeTalk and 702 here. |
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5th June 2016
CALDi activities on N/uu language revitalisation are featured in the Sunday edition of the daily South African newspaper Cape Argus. Read the story here. |
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20th April 2016
Interview with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) on the N/uu reader. Listen to the radio interview here. |
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18th March 2016
UCT Faculty of Humanities reports on a new language tool for South Africa’s most endangered language. Read the article here. |
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11th June 2015
The BBC World Service interview on how the three remaining N/uu speakers are keeping the flame of their language alive. Listen to the interview here. |
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9th June 2015
The Guardian reports on how the three remaining N/uu speakers are attempting to preserve their language and how CALDi is supporting these efforts. Read the story here. |
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23rd January 2015
The CALDi N/uu Language Project is featured in the daily online South African newspaper Daily Maverick. Read the story here. |
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9th May 2014
UCT News puts threatened African languages in the spotlight and features the N/uu alphabet chart. Read the story here. |
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23rd March 2014
Interview with eNews Channel Africa (eNCA) at the Kalahari Desert Festival 2014 on CALDi's work with the last remaining N/uu speakers in Upington. Click on the YouTube video to watch the TV interview. |
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13th February 2014
UCT Faculty of Humanities reports on how UCT is supporting the five remaining speakers of N/uu. Read the story here. |