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Exploring the Use of an African Language in the Cinematic Sci-Fi Movie, Black Panther [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesBlack Panther is the first blockbuster science fiction film to be produced by Hollywood with a predominantly black cast, which places black people at the front and centre of futuristic worlds. The language used in Black Panther is the South African Nguni
Andzisani Prunnel Sibiya
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WEAVING WORDS ACROSS WORLDS: THE SOCIO-TECHNICAL DANCE OF MACHINE TRANSLATION IN PRESERVING CULTURAL NUANCES [PDF]
Ziglôbitha: Neural machine translation (NMT), powered by natural language processing and transformer models, has revolutionized global communication, achieving high accuracy in high-resource languages like English and Arabic.
Hadja BOUFRIOUA
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Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2017 Whilst literature on the acquisition of passive constructions by speakers of European languages abounds, there is a dearth of grammatical descriptions of passive constructions in (especially South) African languages that may serve as a basis for ...
Potgieter, Anneke Perold
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Journal of Open Humanities DataWorld literature plays a key role in understanding the global diversity of human storytelling. However, datasets suitable for large-scale cross-cultural analysis remain limited. Responding to the increasing digitization of literary texts and the need for
Andrew Piper +13 more
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Exploring intellectualisation of South African indigenous languages for academic purposes
LiteratorLanguage represents an individual’s identity in many respects. It is a natural ability of any average person that they use to express thoughts and ideas, investigate their traditions and experiences, and better their community and the laws that govern it.
Matefu L. Mabela, Thabo Ditsele
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Language in Education Policy Debates in Africa Today
Journal of Linguistics, Literary and Communication StudiesThrough critical research methods using document analysis, this study investigated the current Language in Education Policy (LiEP) debates in Africa. There are many such debates going on across the continent, but the literature available is very thin ...
Prosperous Nankindu +1 more
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Challenges and Opportunities in Translation : An African Experience
مجلة النور للدراسات الانسانيةThe Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution has become a reality in today’s world and its importance for linguistics was recognized very early. Despite its unprecedent surge and integration into various academic fields including language teaching and ...
Ahmed Mohammed Bedu, Ahmed Mohammed Bedu,
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The use of technology to preserve indigenous languages of South Africa
LiteratorIndigenous languages in South Africa must be preserved to ensure that they do not lose their identity and become extinct. The four indigenous languages with the fewest speakers among South Africa’s 12 official languages are: Xitsonga, Siswati, Tshivenḓa ...
Respect Mlambo, Muzi Matfunjwa
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Forum for Linguistic StudiesIn South African higher education, the dominance of English and Afrikaans continues to raise concerns about the marginalization and development of indigenous African languages. Consequently, strategies are being sought on how to revitalize indigenous languages in the higher education sector.
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Brave old world: Can today’s university truly be ‘home’ to tomorrow’s minds?
South African Journal of Science, 2016 Laurence Wright
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