{"id":1258,"date":"2026-03-22T02:31:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T02:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2026-03-22T02:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T02:31:47","slug":"1-3b-people-worldwide-speak-african-languages-why-dont-milwaukee-colleges-teach-more-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=1258","title":{"rendered":"1.3B people worldwide speak African languages. Why don&#8217;t Milwaukee colleges teach more of them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wuwm.com\/1-3-billion-people-worldwide-speak-african-languages-why-dont-milwaukee-colleges-teach-more-of-them\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"1.3B people worldwide speak African languages. Why don&#039;t Milwaukee colleges teach more of them?\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/ec56266\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/4032x2117+0+454\/resize\/1200x630!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F18%2F18%2Ffe968a6748b49e7c6a00285b22c6%2Fimg-3660.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.wuwm.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">1.3B people worldwide speak African languages. Why don&#8217;t Milwaukee colleges teach more of them?<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">A WUWM listener asked why colleges in Milwaukee don&#8217;t offer African languages as foreign languages. Marquette and UWM only offer Arabic.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educacion","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1259,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}