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Lazima in Swahili and Beyond: Accounting for the Double Transfer of a Strong Necessity Marker in East Africa

open access: yes
In this study I explore the transfer and further adaptation of Arabic lazima, first into Swahili and its many varieties and then from Swahili into several local language varieties spoken in East Africa.
Bernander, Rasmus,
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Trilingual Ng'hwele-Swahili-English and Swahili-Ng'hwele-English wordlist

open access: yes, 2021
A completely revised word list for a) Ng'wele (source language) and Swahili + English as target languages, as well as Swahili (source language) and Ng'wele + English as target languages being one of the early results of the Gothenburg/African language ...
Legère, Karsten,
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Swahili vs. English in Tanzania and the political discourse

open access: yesStudies in African Languages and Cultures, 2010
This paper deals with the role of Swahili and English in Tanzania. It gave examples of current language use illustrated by written records of middle class people’s verbal interaction.
Karsten Legère
doaj  

Language modeling data for Swahili

open access: yes, 2019
The Swahili dataset developed specifically for language modeling task. The dataset contains 28,000 unique words with 6.84M, 970k, and 2M words for the train, valid and test partitions respectively which represent the ratio 80:10:10. The entire dataset is
Mokhosi Refuoe   +3 more
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Diccionario Swahili-Español. [Swahili-Spanish Dictionary]

open access: yes, 2002
The Diccionario Swahili-Español is a learning tool for Spanish speaking Swahili students and linguists, created with the collaboration of linguists and lexicographers of the prestigious Latin American university that published it (el Colegio de Mexico ...
Githiora, Chege
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The global regime of language recognition

open access: yes, 2012
There is no universally accepted working linguistic definition of a language; the distinction between a dialect and a language is a political question.
Kamusella, Tomasz Dominik
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Means of neologisms formation in Swahili language (based on english vocabulary)

open access: yesRussian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2012
The article is devoted to the main means of new words formation in Swahili language borrowed from English language, including political, scientific technical terms, geographical names.
L A Semenkova
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The Portrayal of Nouns and Figures of Speech in the Expansion of the Standardisation of Swahili Language in Tanzania

open access: yesJournal of Linguistics, Literary and Communication Studies
In this era of science and technology, the standardisation of the Swahili language in Tanzania has been developed due to the emergence of new words in various fields such as health, politics, ICT, and education.
Sarah Vincent, Neema Julius Luhwago
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