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Development and evaluation of the Digit Triplet Test in Swahili language [PDF]

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Communication Disorders
Background: The development of a Digit Triplet Test in the Swahili language is an essential step towards providing accurate hearing assessment for Swahili-speaking populations.
Bjørn G. Rosendahl   +2 more
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UPESI: Swahili translation of the FAST acronym for stroke awareness campaigns in East Africa [PDF]

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Emergency Medicine
Introduction: Despite stroke being a leading cause of death and disability in sub-Saharan Africa, stroke awareness remains a major hurdle to early stroke response and care in the region.
Peter Kuria Waweru   +3 more
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Investigating the Phonetic CLI on Swahili TLA The acquisition of nasal plosive by L1 Mandarin speakers learning English (L2) and Swahili (L3) [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2023
Swahili is an increasingly important language in China with its utility in the Belt and Road Initiative. A number of previous studies in third language acquisition (TLA) applied the concept of crosslinguistic influence (CLI), but there are scant studies ...
Zhang Yufei
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(Re-)examining the standard Kiswahili alphabet in the teaching syllabus for lower secondary schools in Uganda

open access: yesPer Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 2021
Kiswahili is a foreign language (FL) in Uganda. Formally, the teaching of Kiswahili begins in the lower secondary phase. In this phase, Kiswahili had been taught for many years without an authorised syllabus.
Caesar Jjingo, Marianna Visser
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From dugouts to double outriggers; Lexical insights into the development of Swahili nautical technology

open access: yesWacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2021
The early history of nautical technology in the western Indian Ocean and adjoining parts of the African coast is poorly understood. In the absence of evidence from shipwrecks, it has hitherto been based largely on the uncertain interpretation of a few ...
Martin Walsh
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Translation and adaptation of the stroke-specific quality of life scale into Swahili

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Physiotherapy, 2023
Background: Stroke care requires a patient-centred, evidence-based and culturally appropriate approach for better patient clinical outcomes. Quality of life necessitates precise measuring using health-related quality measures that are self-reported and ...
Emily M. Nyanumba   +3 more
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Enhancing text pre-processing for Swahili language: Datasets for common Swahili stop-words, slangs and typos with equivalent proper words

open access: yesData in Brief, 2020
Natural Language Processing requires data to be pre-processed to guarantee quality models in different machine learning tasks. However, Swahili language have been disadvantaged and is classified as low resource language because of inadequate data for NLP
Bernard Masua, Noel Masasi
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SWAHILI ARCHITECTURE: A HERITAGE OF THE EAST COAST OF AFRICA

open access: yesAMJAU, African and Mediterranean Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2023
Swahili architecture, which developed along the Swahili Coast in East Africa, represents a remarkable amalgamation of African, Arab, and South Asian influences.
Noura Ahmed Sadik   +3 more
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Les difficultés linguistiques rencontrées par les étudiants burundais apprenant le swahili oral [PDF]

open access: yesAkofena
Résumé : Cet article vise à examiner les difficultés linguistiques rencontrées par les étudiants burundais lors de l’apprentissage du swahili oral. Les données sont issues de l’observation des leçons en classe de swahili oral dans trois classes des trois
Mathieu BAMPORUBUSA, George ALAO & Odile RACINE
doaj   +5 more sources

Open-Access Archaeological Predictive Modeling Using Zonal Statistics: A Case Study from Zanzibar, Tanzania

open access: yesJournal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 2023
This paper presents a case study using zonal statistical analysis for archaeological predictive modeling with open-access software and free geospatial datasets.
Wolfgang Alders
doaj   +1 more source

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