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Greater Swahili – Swahili Varieties in L2+ Swahili Teaching
Swahili Forum, 2023 In this paper, I focus on what we could call the ‘myth of Standard Swahili’ and its consequences for language teaching. Instead of distinguishing between ‘standard’ and ‘deviant’ varieties of Swahili, I suggest the term Greater Swahili to designate the whole of the varieties spoken in Africa and the African diaspora.
Waldburger, Daniela
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Modality in Swahili : epistemic modal adverbs in Swahili : insights from a historical Swahili corpus
In this study, we explore the main set of adverbs – i.e., free-standing, monorhematic and invariable non-nominal modifiers; Ramat & Ricca 1998 – used to express epistemic possibility in Swahili. The adverbs in question are pengine, huenda and lab(u)da.
Bernander, Rasmus +3 more
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Swahili Palimpsests: The Muslim stories beneath Swahili compositions
, 2018 Although a textual relationship between Arabic Muslim texts and their rendition through Swahili epic poems (tendi) is acknowledged in Swahili poetry studies, “translation” is not a straightforward explanation of this relationship. Furthermore, Swahili narrative poems on the prophets (manabii), mostly created at the end of the 19th century, have seldom ...
Raia, Annachiara, Raia, A.
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SWAHILI ARCHITECTURE: A HERITAGE OF THE EAST COAST OF AFRICA
AMJAU, 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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Journal 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
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LEMMATIC INFLUENCE ON VOCABULARY ACQUISITION AMONG L3 ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN TANZANIA
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021 This paper investigates cross-linguistic influence (CLI) on the acquisition of English vocabulary by third language (L3) learners in Tanzania. Specifically, the study aims to establish how lemmatic CLI from L1 and L2 influences L3 in a multilingual rural
Lydia Kaoo, Rose Acen Upor
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Corrigendum: Translation and adaptation of the stroke-specific quality of life scale into Swahili
South African Journal of Physiotherapy, 2023 No abstract available.
Emily M. Nyanumba +3 more
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Les difficultés linguistiques rencontrées par les étudiants burundais apprenant le swahili oral [PDF]
AkofenaRésumé : 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
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Journal of African Languages and Literatures, 2022 Like in other African countries, in Tanzania the debate on the medium of instruction has focused on the use of either English or Swahili in secondary and post-secondary education.
Gastor C. Mapunda
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Enhancing African low-resource languages: Swahili data for language modelling
Data in Brief, 2020 Language modelling using neural networks requires adequate data to guarantee quality word representation which is important for natural language processing (NLP) tasks.
Casper S. Shikali, Refuoe Mokhosi
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