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Adding Visual Information to Improve Multimodal Machine Translation for Low‐Resource Language

open access: yesMathematical Problems in Engineering, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022
Machine translation makes it easy for people to communicate across languages. Multimodal machine translation is also one of the important directions of research in machine translation, which uses feature information such as images and audio to assist translation models in obtaining higher quality target languages.
Xiayang Shi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Initial findings on the Boor language

open access: yesAfrika und Übersee, 2021
This article provides the first published information on Boor, an Eastern Chadic language spoken in a single village in the Moyen Chari Region of Chad.
James Roberts
doaj   +1 more source

Zamucoan Person Marking as a Perturbed System*

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 265-288, August 2021., 2021
Abstract This paper analyzes the Zamucoan system of Person markers: personal pronouns, verbal and possessive inflection. Comparing the three documented languages (Ayoreo and Chamacoco, currently spoken, and extinct Old Zamuco), one can reconstruct for a very ancient stage of this language family an agglutinating structure for both personal pronouns and
Pier Marco Bertinetto
wiley   +1 more source

Notes on Gàlì (Miltu), a moribund Chadic language (Republic of Chad)

open access: yesFolia Orientalia, 2023
A short description of Gali, an East Chadic language, based on field notes taken in 1972.
H. Jungraithmayr, C. Peust
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The classification of the Masa group of languages

open access: yesStudies 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
doaj   +3 more sources

Conditional constructions in Makary Kotoko

open access: yesStudies 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
doaj   +3 more sources

ON THE ORIGIN OF THE VERB “TO WRITE” IN CHADIC LANGUAGES

open access: yesJournal of the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS, 2022
Chadic, Semitic, Egyptian, Berber, Kushitic and Omotic languages comprise the Afroasiatic (Hamito-­Semitic) macro-family. The paper is aimed to clarify the origin of the verb ‘to write’ in different Chadic languages. Two main sources: semantic shifts and
O. Stolbova
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Le nom du souverain dans les parlers « kotoko » du Cameroun

open access: yesLinguistique et Langues Africaines, 2021
The so-called “Kotoko” group is located mainly in the far north of Cameroon, and marginally in Chad and Nigeria. It is composed of small fortified kingdoms built primarily in the West of the Lower Chari and the Lower Logone.
Henry Tourneux
doaj   +1 more source

Pattern borrowing and hybridization in Mubi (East Chadic): The importance of congruence

open access: yesWord Structure, 2021
The plural system of Mubi (East Chadic, Afroasiatic) stands out cross-linguistically within Chadic and worldwide for its extensive use of pattern morphology, fixing the output's vowel qualities and shape while preserving the input's consonants.
Lameen Souag
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Kushi-English-Hausa Wordlist

open access: yesLinguistic Discovery, 2017
A Kushi-English-Hausa ...
Gian Claudio Batic
doaj   +1 more source

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