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What is the place of African languages in knowledge production? [South African Journal of African Languages]

International Journal of the Sociology of Language
Abstract Despite their vast potential, African languages are often marginalised in the knowledge production ecosystem. This article explores the multifaceted roles African languages could play not just in shaping and preserving indigenous knowledge systems and fostering cultural identities but also in being languages of science and ...
Gibson Ncube
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Texting and African language literacy

New Media & Society, 2011
Mobile communication has become an important part of everyday life in Senegal, and text messages have turned out to be highly multilingual. So far Senegalese language policy has supported the use of the official language, French, in education and in writing in general, while the majority language, Wolof, has dominated the oral sphere. As SMS texts tend
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Natural language processing for African languages

2023
Recent advances in pre-training of word embeddings and language models leverage large amounts of unlabelled texts and self-supervised learning to learn distributed representations that have significantly improved the performance of deep learning models on a large variety of natural language processing tasks.
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Statistical unicodification of African languages

Language Resources and Evaluation, 2011
Many languages in Africa are written using Latin-based scripts, but often with extra diacritics (e.g. dots below in Igbo: $${\d i}, {\d o}, {\d u}$$ ) or modifications to the letters themselves (e.g. open vowels "e" and "o" in Lingala: ?, ?). While it is possible to render these characters accurately in Unicode, oftentimes keyboard input methods are ...
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ATR Harmony in African Languages

Language and Linguistics Compass, 2008
Abstract A widespread phonological pattern in African languages of the Niger‐Congo and Nilo‐Saharan families is a type of vowel harmony or assimilation based on a phonological feature [ATR], or advanced tongue root. This article introduces the general behavior of African ATR harmony systems, briefly describes their geographic and ...
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An African renaissance without African languages?

Social Dynamics, 1999
(1999). An African renaissance without African languages? Social Dynamics: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 1-12.
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African language development and language planning

Social Dynamics, 1999
(1999). African language development and language planning. Social Dynamics: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 13-30.
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African films and languages

Journal of African Cinemas
This editorial explores the usage of African languages in African cinemas using insights from scholars such as Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Such an exploration is significant given this themed edition’s main argument that African films play a vital role in exporting African culture to the world.
Gilbert Motsaathebe, Abiodun Salawu
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African Wordnet: facilitating language learning in African languages

Proceedings of the 9th Global Wordnet Conference, 2018
Sonja Bosch, Marissa Griesel
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The Language of African Literature

Harvard Educational Review, 1964
Talking enthusiastically about her visit to Europe, a leading African woman in South Africa said to a group of listeners a few years ago, "The role of the woman in Europe fascinated me so much that I wanted to write more about it to you folks at home. I wished I could write with all my ten fingers." The last phrase was an invention, unlike the number ...
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