Notes on regular polysemy and homonymy (Mande languages)
Language in Africa, 2020 Based on Mande languages as an example, the article examines the possibilities of using regular polysemy and regular homonymy for solving problems of comparative studies and semantic typology. Three cases are investigated.
K. Pozdniakov
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Ajami script for the Mande languages [PDF]
, 2014 Arabic-based (Ajami) writing has been used for Mande languages, most probably, since the times of the Ancient Mali (13-16 centuries). It is still in use among Mandinka in Senegal, Gambia and Guinea Bissau, among Susu and Mogofin in Guinea, and to a ...
Vydrin, Valentin
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Missionary descriptions of Mande languages: verbal morphology in 19th century grammars
Faits de Langues, 2020 In spite of the prominent role of missionary linguists in shaping the field of modern African linguistics, the approaches adopted in their early grammar descriptions remain virtually unstudied, just as the descriptions themselves are largely ignored by ...
Tatiana Nikitina
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Russian linguistic field trips to Côte d’Ivoire and orthography reforms in the south mande languages [PDF]
Kunstkamera, 2019 dans la nouvelle orthographe. Man: Pȁbhɛ̄nbhȁbhɛ̏n. linguistic field to aiming to study south Mande languages take place annually since 2001. one of the side effects of these field trips are the orthographic reforms which have con-cerned the majority ...
V. Vydrin
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Focus marking and size in some Mande and Atlantic languages [PDF]
, 2023 This paper compares the focus marking systems and the focus size that can be expressed by the different focus markings in four Mande and three Atlantic languages and varieties, namely: Bambara, Dyula, Kakabe, Soninke (Mande), Wolof, Jóola Foñy and Jóola ...
Jordanoska, I.
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Determinants of Malaria Vaccine Awareness Among Women in Ghana: Findings From the 2022 Ghana Malaria Indicator Survey. [PDF]
Public Health ChallMalaria vaccine awareness in Ghana is driven by education, digital access, age, religion, and region. Closing digital and regional gaps is essential to reach underserved women and support Ghana's malaria elimination goals. ABSTRACT Background In Ghana, pregnant women are disproportionately affected by malaria, yet awareness of malaria vaccination ...
Sarfo M +4 more
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Evidence for Pathogen-Driven Selection Acting on HLA-DPB1 in Response to Plasmodium falciparum Malaria in West Africa. [PDF]
Ecol EvolThis study analyzed HLA class II genes in over 1,000 individuals from 23 African populations, revealing genetic diversity influenced by geography, culture, and environment, with a significant link between Plasmodium falciparum prevalence and variation at the DPB1 gene.
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Linguistics, 2023 In the adnominal possessive construction of Mandinka (a West Mande language spoken in Gambia, Senegal, and Guinea Bissau), the possessor NP may be simply juxtaposed to the possessee or flagged by the postposition lá.
Denis Creissels
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Neural Machine Translation for Extremely Low-Resource African Languages: A Case Study on Bambara [PDF]
LORESMT, 2020 Low-resource languages present unique challenges to (neural) machine translation. We discuss the case of Bambara, a Mande language for which training data is scarce and requires significant amounts of pre-processing. More than the linguistic situation of
A. Tapo +8 more
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Phonology in the basilect the fate of final consonants in Liberian Interior English
Studies in African Linguistics, 1991 Pidginized Liberian Interior English (LIE) has English as its lexifier language and Mande languages as its substrate. Broadly speaking, this means that LIE takes its lexicon from English and its phonology from Mande.
John Victor Singler
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