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Swahili language in Afro-American culture [PDF]

, 2020
The article examines the role and functions of Swahili language in Africa and the USA, and using the vocabulary of Swahili in the Afro-American culture, particularly in the Afro-American festival of Kwanzaa, which founder is the American historian Maulana Karenga. Attention is also paid to ideology of Afrocentrism and replacing ‘slave’ names by Swahili
Gromova, Nelli V.
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Swahili Journalistic Language

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 1995
Swahili Journalistic Language: A Linguistics Study (View)
J. K. Mensah
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Swahili Language Manager

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2004
Swahili Language Manager (SALAMA) is a computational environment for managing written Swahili language and for developing various kinds of language applications.
Arvi Hurskainen
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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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KenSwQuAD—A Question Answering Dataset for Swahili Low-resource Language

ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, 2023
The need for question-answering (QA) datasets in low-resource languages is the motivation of this research, leading to the development of the Kencorpus Swahili Question Answering Dataset (KenSwQuAD). This dataset is annotated from raw story texts of Swahili, a low-resource language that is predominantly spoken in eastern Africa and in other parts of ...
Wanjawa Barack Wamkaya, Edward Ombui, Lawrence Muchemi   +2 more
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In the heart of Swahili: An exploration of data collection methods and corpus curation for natural language processing

Data in Brief
Swahili corpus is a dataset generated by collecting written Kiswahili sentences from different sectors that deals with Kiswahili documents. Corpus of intended language is needed in Natural Language Processing (NLP) task to fit algorithm in order to ...
Bernard Masua, Noel Masasi
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Grammatical Terms Equivalent in Simplified Swahili [PDF]

مجلة الدراسات الإنسانية والأدبية, 2022
This study aims to clarify the equivalents and synonyms for some terms in the Simplified Swahili book by Wilson, which he put in a dictionary called the Glossary. In order to facilitate the learning of the Swahili language.
د/حسام محمد رمضان
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إشكالية ترجمة أخبار الأدب من السواحيلية إلى العربية من خلال موقع بي بي سي سواحيلي [PDF]

مجلة الدراسات الإنسانية والأدبية, 2023
تناقش هذه الدراسة "إشكالية ترجمة أخبار الأدب من السواحيلية إلى العربية من خلال موقع بي بي سي سواحيلي"، تتناول الدراسة الصعوبات التي تواجه المترجم بين اللغة العربية واللغة السواحيلية في مجال الترجمة الأدبية وخاصة ترجمة الأخبار الأدبية. وألقت الدراسة الضوء
حسام محمد رمضان
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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]

SHS 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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A Bantu Ghost in Uralistics? [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2022
Swahili is not to be taken as evidence for an original Uralic lingua franca in this guilt-by-association way, simply because it does not originate in any pidgin or creole language. Arabic can be said to play the same role in the development of Swahili as
André Hesselbäck
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