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What the token premium costs African languages

African languages need more tokens than English for the same meaning. That premium is paid in cost, context and speed.

Nzinga team

Tokenizer research at HQ Protocol

November 5, 2026

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Measuring tokenizers on held-out text

Why every figure comes from test sentences the tokenizer never saw in training.

Extending a tokenizer without breaking English

English and French change by three tokens at most.

Raw tokens, not premiums: a correction

Our first prototype reported 14 of 26 languages. On raw tokens it was 7.

Introducing the Nzinga Network pilot

An invite-only app where members choose, for every recording, who can use their voice.

Sovereignty, measured layer by layer: where Nzinga stands

Who controls the tokenizer, the data, the standard and the infrastructure, measured today.

Nzinga team

October 28, 2026

9 min

The source

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Research

Raw tokens, not premiums: a correction

Our first prototype reported 14 of 26 languages. On raw tokens it was 7.

Sovereignty, measured layer by layer: where Nzinga stands

Who controls the tokenizer, the data, the standard and the infrastructure, measured today.

Measuring tokenizers on held-out text

Why every figure comes from test sentences the tokenizer never saw in training.

Extending a tokenizer without breaking English

English and French change by three tokens at most.

Introducing the Nzinga Network pilot

An invite-only app where members choose, for every recording, who can use their voice.

Nzinga team

October 31, 2026

3 min

Mosaic in flame and magenta for the Swahili language story

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