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What kind of language is Swahili?
, 2012 Recently we have seen the appearance of an interesting and provocative book on the Swahili. This book, by Ali Amin Mazrui and Ibrahim Noor Shariff (1994), takes a serious look at the question of Swahili identity and origins. This paper has at least two goals. One is to help define the nature of the debate about origins, and in so doing I will explicate
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Swahili language has three such affirmative tense forms that are translated to other languages with present tense. This means that Swahili makes a fine-grained distinction between nuances of present tense, and the translation of these nuances is ...
Hurskainen, Arvi
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A Language for the World: The Standardization of Swahili [PDF]
This intellectual history of Standard Swahili explores the long-term, intertwined processes of standard making and community creation in the historical, political, and cultural contexts of East Africa and beyond. Morgan J. Robinson argues that the portability of Standard Swahili has contributed to its wide use not only across the African continent but ...
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Retrieving monosyllabic verbs from Helsinki Corpus of Swahili 2.0
Verbs in Swahili language, as well as in Bantu languages in general, have two-directional word formation. The verb stem may have several consecutive prefixes and suffixes.
Hurskainen, Arvi
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The Determinant Phrase in the Spanish Interlanguage of Native Speakers of Swahili
This book makes a significant contribution to the Second Language Acquisition research field as it is the only study that exists on the acquisition of the Spanish Determiner Phrase (DP) by speakers of a Bantu language.
Buil, Maria Landa.
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Proverbs in Swahili texts and in Kamusi ya Kiswahili Sanifu
Kamusi ya Kiswahili Sanifu has for a long time been the standard dictionary of Swahili. Although it covers only part of words used in Swahili, it still is a useful aid in learning Swahili.
Hurskainen, Arvi
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Time, aspect and tense in Helsinki Corpus of Swahili 2.0
This technical report is an inventory of the use of various TAM (tense, aspect and mood) forms in Swahili language. The source text is Helsinki Corpus of Swahili 2.0 with 25 million words.
Hurskainen, Arvi
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Computational Bridges: Enhancing Natural Language Processing of Swahili.
Swahili remains significantly underrepresented in natural language processing (NLP) despite being one of the most widely spoken languages in Africa.
Murungi, Joyce
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