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Literator, 2008 Working with corpora in the South African Bantu languages has up till now been limited to the utilisation of raw corpora. Such corpora, however, have limited functionality.
E. Taljard +3 more
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An acoustic study of vocal expression in two genres of Yoruba oral poetry
Frontiers in Communication, 2022 This pilot study proposes an acoustic study of the vocal expressions in Ìjálá and Ẹ̀sà, two genres of Yorùbá oral poetry. For this study, we conducted an experiment, involving the vocalization of an original poem in speech mode, Ìjálá and Ẹ̀sà.
Samuel K. Akinbo +3 more
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Die beeld van afwesigheid en die politiek van naamgewing in Shona-oorlogsfiksie
Literator, 2013 Tydens Zimbabwe se bevrydingsoorlog het duisende jong mense die grense van buurlande oorgesteek om wapens op te neem teen kolonialisme. Daar bestaan voldoende getuienis dat baie van hierdie jong mense vroulik was.
Willie L. Chigidi, Davie E. Mutasa
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Strategies for building wordnets for under-resourced languages: The case of African languages
Literator, 2017 The African Wordnet Project (AWN) aims at building wordnets for five African languages: Setswana, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sesotho sa Leboa (also referred to as Sepedi or Northern Sotho) and Tshivenda.
Sonja E. Bosch, Marissa Griesel
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Mystery in Sepedi detective stories
Literator, 2007 The aim of this article is to illustrate the importance of the concept “mystery” in the classification of Sepedi detective stories. Mystery is therefore first defined, and then some rules governing how mystery is created and sustained in a narrative are ...
M.J. Mojalefa, N.I. Magapa
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Classification of Setswana short stories
Literator, 2007 The aim of this article is to reclassify Setswana short stories according to their treatment of female characters. Critics such as Ranamane have classified Setswana literary works according to year of publication, without giving any valid reasons for ...
M.J. Mojalefa, M.M. Makgato
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African Languages Development in Education -Bilingualism and African Languages
International Journal of Language and Literary Studies, 2022 The issue of teaching in the mother tongue has generated significant and controversial debates among decision-makers and has engendered different policies aiming to enhance the use of mother tongues into educational curricula. Africa is a perfect illustration of a continent where mother tongues have been marginalized over years to let the place to ...
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Ìgbélárugẹ Èdè: Akinwumi Isola’s Model for Promoting African Languages
Yoruba Studies Review, 2021 The ever-popular discussion in African literary circles is critically about language choices that African writers make in their creative endeavors. This is part of this write-up’s focus plus the plight of African languages with attention to the benefit
Akinloye Ojo
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Mongwalelo wa sefela sa Serote: 'A re thabeng re rete' (Difela t�a kereke, 2010)
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2015 Bangwadi ba Bathobaso ba difela t a kereke ba huedit we ke bangwadi ba baruti (ba Matoit hi ba Kereke ya Lutere ya Berlin) ge ba tlo ngwala difela. Ka go realo ke ba mathomo ba go ngwala poleloopelwa ya Sepedi. Ka lebaka la gore baruti ba Matoit hi ba be
Deborah Mampuru, Jerry Mojalefa
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