Strategies for Representing Tone in African Writing Systems [PDF]
, 1999 Tone languages provide some interesting challenges for the designers of new orthographies. One approach is to omit tone marks, just as stress is not marked in English (zero marking).
Bird, Steven
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Genome-wide SNP analysis of Southern African populations provides new insights into the dispersal of Bantu-speaking groups [PDF]
, 2015 The expansion of Bantu-speaking agropastoralist populations had a great impact on the genetic, linguistic, and cultural variation of sub-Saharan Africa. It is generally accepted that Bantu languages originated in an area around the present border between
ANAGNOSTOU, PAOLO +8 more
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Cultural Significance of Toponyms in South Africa: A Comprehensive Morphosyntactic and Semantic Analysis [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesToponyms are integral to daily lexicon, functioning as designators for cities, towns, nations, and tiny villages. This study, therefore, delved into a morphosyntactic and semantic analysis of toponyms in the Nkomazi region, South Africa.
Khulisile Judith Nkuna +3 more
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Indlela or uhambo? Translator style in Mandela’s autobiography
Literator, 2016 One of the aspects that concerns translation scholars most is the question of the translator’s style. It was realised that little research had been undertaken investigating the individual style of literary translators in terms of what might be distinct ...
Amanda Nokele, Koliswa Moropa
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Ancient west Eurasian ancestry in southern and eastern Africa [PDF]
, 2013 The history of southern Africa involved interactions between indigenous hunter-gatherers and a range of populations that moved into the region. Here we use genome-wide genetic data to show that there are at least two admixture events in the history of ...
Berger, Bonnie +7 more
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An Assessment of Gender stereotypes and messages contained in Zulu traditional wedding songs – A Case Study of the Mandeni Community [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesTraditional wedding songs provide a source of entertainment to wedding attendees while communicating messages. However, some songs depict problematic themes, including references to negative stereotypes about men and women in marriages.
Zinhle Primrose Nkosi +3 more
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Education Sciences, 2023 The current wave of technological development globally necessitates certain entrepreneurial abilities for most professionals to succeed in the job market.
Omotosho Ademola Olumuyiwa +2 more
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Exploring Reading Comprehension Challenges in the Setswana Home Language Classroom: Learners’ and Techers’ Perspectives [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesLearners’ poor reading comprehension levels have plunged South Africa into a reading crisis. Despite the government’s initiatives to improve learners’ reading levels and redress their lack of reading comprehension skills, it is still a serious problem ...
Paulinah M. Mahoro +2 more
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, 2018 The Bantu Expansion stands for the concurrent dispersal of Bantu languages and Bantu-speaking people from an ancestral homeland situated in the Grassfields region in the borderland between current-day Nigeria and Cameroon.
Bostoen, Koen
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The musical treatment of the cell phone technology in Zimbabwe: analysing selected songs
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThe emergence of cell phone technology and the developments that followed this technological invention triggered musical compositions that grapple with a multiplicity of issues.
Charles Tembo, Allan Tapiwa Maganga
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