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The Ramifications of the Neglect of Indigenous South African Languages by the South African Government: COVID-19 as a Case Study

African Journal of Inter-Multidisciplinary Studies, 2023
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 towards the end of 2019 and its proliferation across the globe, the lives of many populations have been disrupted, causing intense turbulence in social, economic and political dimensions.
Mlamli Diko
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African Languages and African Literature

UJAH: Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2011
In the 1960s, much diatribe was exchanged by African literary artists within their caucus, and outside with different scholars interested in African literature. Wali demonstrates this disagreement. He comments, “… until these writers and their western midwives accept the fact that true African literature must be written in African ...
Eme, CA, Mbagwu, DU
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A Systematic Literature Review on Bias Evaluation and Mitigation in Automatic Speech Recognition Models for Low-Resource African Languages

ACM Computing Surveys
With recent advancements in speech recognition, it is crucial to ensure that automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems do not exhibit systematic biases, such as those related to gender, age, accent, and dialect.
Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Peter Nabende
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Intellectualising African languages in literature and linguistics at selected Zimbabwean higher learning institutions

South African Journal of African Languages
The incorporation of specialised domains of knowledge such as STEM subjects into the discourse surrounding the intellectualisation of African languages has become increasingly prevalent.
Raphaël Nhongo, Liqhwa Siziba
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Exploring intellectualisation of South African indigenous languages for academic purposes

Literator
Language 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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Exploring the Use of an African Language in the Cinematic Sci-Fi Movie, Black Panther [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Black 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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African Languages and Literature [PDF]

, 2013
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Reading blank space from an ecopoetic perspective in selected poems by E.E. Cummings and William Carlos Williams

Literator, 2022
Sorrow is perhaps the usual response to the disappearance of things into ‘nowhere’. The use of blank space in the poetry of E. E. Cummings and William Carlos Williams indicates an alternative response: to accept and even celebrate this.
Etienne J. Terblanche
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The retainment of South African indigenous languages: a systemic literature review

International Journal of Research In Business and Social Science, 2023
Intricacies concerning indigenous languages in the South African milieu demonstrate intransigence that necessitates a scholarly contestation. This is in addition to the parades that have been made by the post-colonial government and language experts to ...
Mlamli Diko
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South African Indigenous Languages and Digital Technologies: Access, Promotion and Preservation

International Journal of Social Science Research and Review, 2023
This study has adopted the non-empirical research design: a systematic review. The purpose of the study was to explore the access, promotion and preservation of South African indigenous languages using digital technologies. As a research methodology, the
N. Sundani
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