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The classification of the Masa group of languages
Studies in African Linguistics, 1997 The Chadic family of languages comprises approximately 140 languages classified into three major branches: West Chadic, Biu-Mandara, and East Chadic.
Aaron Shryock
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Conditional constructions in Makary Kotoko
Studies in African Linguistics, 2017 Kotoko is a Chadic language spoken in Cameroon, in the region just south of Lake Chad. Based on an analysis of a corpus of texts with helpful input from a mother tongue speaker of the language, this paper presents the forms and functions of conditional ...
Sean Allison
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Nominal and verbal plurality in the Mandara and Ɓata subgroups of Central Chadic
Afrika und Übersee, 2021 This paper contrasts the strategies for marking nominal and verbal plurality in the Mandara and Ɓata subgroups of Central Chadic, and offers some thoughts on their possible origin and development.
Matthew Harley
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Afrika und Übersee, 2020 Contact between the Tarokoid languages of Sur, Yangkam, Pe, Vaghat Cluster, Tarok and some Chadic languages found in southeast Plateau State of central Nigeria and its implications for the sketching of a history for the area is the main thesis of this ...
Selbut Longtau
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A Kushi-English-Hausa Wordlist
Linguistic Discovery, 2017 A Kushi-English-Hausa ...
Gian Claudio Batic
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Hausa Visual Genome: A Dataset for Multi-Modal English to Hausa Machine Translation [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Multi-modal Machine Translation (MMT) enables the use of visual information to enhance the quality of translations. The visual information can serve as a valuable piece of context information to decrease the ambiguity of input sentences. Despite the increasing popularity of such a technique, good and sizeable datasets are scarce, limiting the full ...
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The first large scale collection of diverse Hausa language datasets [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Hausa language belongs to the Afroasiatic phylum, and with more first-language speakers than any other sub-Saharan African language. With a majority of its speakers residing in the Northern and Southern areas of Nigeria and the Republic of Niger, respectively, it is estimated that over 100 million people speak the language.
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Molecular Ecology, Volume 26, Issue 22, Page 6238-6252, November 2017., 2017 Abstract Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes play a key role in the immune response to infectious diseases, some of which are highly prevalent in specific environments, like malaria in sub‐Saharan Africa. Former case–control studies showed that one particular HLA‐B allele, B*53, was associated with malaria protection in Gambia, but this hypothesis was ...
Alicia Sanchez‐Mazas +13 more
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Relativization in Chadic: a Case Study of Musgum, Masa, Wandala and Giziga [PDF]
Akofena, 2023 : The paper addresses relative clause formation in four Chadic languages spoken in the upper north region of Cameroon, namely Musgusm, Masa, Wandela and Giziga.
Edmond Biloa
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Detection and Analysis of Offensive Online Content in Hausa Language [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Hausa, a major Chadic language spoken by over 100 million people mostly in West Africa is considered a low-resource language from a computational linguistic perspective. This classification indicates a scarcity of linguistic resources and tools necessary for handling various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, including the detection of offensive ...
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