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O-Swahili: Language and Liminality

open access: yesMatatu, 2015
This essay explores the idea of Kenya as a linguistic contact zone from a creative writer's point of view and uses the ironic neologism 'O-Swahili', a term fusing Swahili and the Nilotic languages spoken in western Kenya, as an inspirational marker for the multilingual lifeworlds that intersect in contemporary Kenyan society where people typically ...
Owuor, Yvonne Adhiambo
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Lexicography and language learning of Swahili L2 at UNIOR: the Swahili-Italian online dictionary project

open access: yes, 2021
The present essay outlines the progress of a lexicography project, namely a Swahili-Italian online dictionary, which was developed at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” (henceforth UNIOR) and conceived as a useful digital tool for Italian L1 learners of Swahili in a context of renewal of the teaching/learning of Swahili at the UNIOR, encouraged by ...
F. Aiello, M. Toscano, R. Tramutoli
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The Development of the Swahili Language

Africa, 1930
At a time when so much has been said of self-determination and of the inalienable right of nations to maintain their own traditions and institutions and to build up distinct types of civilization and culture in response to the impulse of their own national spirit and genius, the importance of national and racial differences in temperament and character
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The Limitations of an Ecumenical Language. The Case of Ki-Swahili

Anthropos, 2008
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Wijsen, F.J.S., Tanner, R.E.S.
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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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SwahBERT: Language Model of Swahili

Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2022
Gati L. Martin   +3 more
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The Re-Bantuization of the Swahili Language

Africa, 1931
Opening ParagraphMy recent article on the ‘Development of the Swahili Language’ was written before the publication of Pastor Roehl's article on ‘The Linguistic Situation in East Africa’. The former, therefore, though published six months after the latter, contains no reference to it. But Pastor Roehl's interesting article requires a reply.
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History of the Standard Swahili Language

Abstract In many ways, Swahili has become emblematic of the African continent. Taught in universities around the world, an official language of the African Union, and embraced by some members of the diaspora as a way to connect with the continent’s histories and cultures, Swahili is a global language, and its most far-reaching dialect
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