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Plant Wax Biomarker Evidence for Late Pleistocene-to-Holocene Forest Resilience and Ecological Refugium Dynamics at Panga ya Saidi, Coastal Kenya

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Patalano R   +11 more
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Swahili

open access: yes, 2006
Swahili is a Bantu language spoken by over 50 million (first- and second-language) speakers in East Africa, including Tanzania and Kenya, where it is a national language, and parts of Somalia, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
L. Marten, Marten, Lutz
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Swahili Origins: Swahili Culture and the Shungwaya Phenomenon

The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 1994
Preface by J. Middleton - Foreword: The Problem of Swahili Identity - The Earliest Coastal Settlements - Schungwaya: the Setting - Early Trade & Trade-Routes - Swahili Tr aditions & Metaphors - Segeju Traditions - Shirazi Tra ditions & the Composition of Shungwaya - Great Shungwa ya & its Successor States - The First Swahili Diaspora & the Coming of ...
Adria Laviolette   +2 more
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Swahili

1998
This is a comprehensive manual intended to teach students the basics of communicating in Swahili at an elementary level. It is designed to teach major communicative skills such as speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Moreover, the text strives to impart fundamental knowledge about East African and Swahili culture.
Thomas J. Hinnebusch   +2 more
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Les énoncés hypothétiques en swahili : swahili standard et swahili poétique

Verbum, 1983
Combettes Bernard, Tomassone Roberte. Les énoncés hypothétiques en swahili : swahili standard et swahili poétique. In: Verbum, tome 6 N°3, 1983. Numéro spécial, énoncés hypothétiques. pp. 241-258.
Combettes, B., Tomassone, R.
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The Idea of 'The Holy' in Swahili

Journal of Religion in Africa, 1999
On dit quelquefois que les langues Bantoues preferent les mots concrets et sont pauvres en concepts abstraits, et, de fait, on ne trouve pas le mot 'saint' dans les quatre volumes des Langues Bantoues de Guthrie (1971). Hors ce dernier a fait une selection, car le concept de la saintete n'est pas absent dans cette famille de langues. Le swahili, membre
P.J.L. Frankl, null YAHYA ALI OMAR
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The influence of Swahili on Kinubi

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 2014
Kinubi, as it is spoken today in Kenya and Uganda, is strongly influenced by Swahili, the two languages having been in contact with each other for more than one century. This influence does not occur in the lexicon alone, but also in the phonology and even the morphology and syntax of Kinubi.
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Swahili. Perceptions of gender in Swahili language and society

2003
1.Introduction 2.Noun classes in Swahili 2.1Swahili noun classification and agreement 2.2Animate nouns 2.3Coordination 2.4Personal nouns 3.Referring to women and men 3.1Lexical and covert gender
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Currencies of the Swahili world

2017
This is the first volume to explore the Swahili in chronological perspective and it is part of the Routledge Worlds Series. Each chapter offers a wealth of detail on an aspect of the region's past. The result is a book that allows both specialist and non-specialist readers to explore the diversity of the Swahili tradition, how Swahili society has ...
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