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African languages in Podcasts

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A continent with over 2,000 languages, many lacking scientific terminology translations.

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Celebrating Science on Africa Day

Wow, very cool. Tristan, where are you taking us next? Well, something that really interested me when I was looking into this week's theme were efforts to translate scientific terms into African languages. There are more than 2,000 languages spoken on the African continent, and in many cases, translations for words like bacteria or virus or even like dinosaur, they actually currently don't exist.