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Morphological Productivity and Lexical Innovation in Swahili: Digital Communication and Language Transformation in Social Media Spaces

Language, Technology, and Social Media
Swahili, as a major lingua franca in East Africa, is undergoing significant transformation through digital communication, particularly on social media platforms.
Prisca Boniphace Makulilo
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KenSwQuAD—A Question Answering Dataset for Swahili Low-resource Language [PDF]

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 ...
Barack W. Wanjawa, Lilian D. A. Wanzare, Florence Indede, Owen Mconyango, Lawrence Muchemi, Edward Ombui   +5 more
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Language Comparison Between Swahili and Malay Languages with Semantic and Pragmatic Problems

REiLA, 2020
The purpose of this study is to explore the similarities and differences of Malay and Kiswahili, which is better known as Swahili. This study intends to investigate the patterns of response from Malays and Kiswahili.
Shintia Dwi Putri
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Leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Swahili Language Conversation Systems

Applied Sciences
A conversational system is an artificial intelligence application designed to interact with users in natural language, providing accurate and contextually relevant responses.
Edmund V. Ndimbo, Qin Luo, Gimo C. Fernando, Xu Yang, Bang Wang   +4 more
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Kinship metaphors in Swahili language and culture

STUDIES IN AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES, 2018
Swahili kinship terms are highly polysemous and occur in many figurative meanings out of which some are fully conventionalized in language usage. The article focuses on a specific case of such extensions which metaphorically frames an unrelated person as one’s kin.
Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
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Patriarchal Masculinity in Recent Swahili-language Muslim Sermons [PDF]

The Journal of Religion in Africa, 2016
This paper offers a close examination of statements on patriarchal masculinity from three widely traded sermon recordings produced in Zanzibar, Tanzania. It sets them in the context of Islamic reform, Muslim political discontent, and the consumption of sermon recordings in East Africa.
F. Becker
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Swahili Language [PDF]

Definitions, 2020
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Phonological Adaption of Swahili Loanword in Matengo Language

International Journal online of Humanities
The study investigates the phonological adaptation of Kiswahili loaned words in Matengo Language, with specific objectives, namely: to examine the underlying structure and surface structure of the loaned Swahili words in Matengo Language and to assess the phonological processes involved in the loaned Swahili words in Matengo Language.
Atanas Ndunguru
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A Machine Learning Model for detecting Covid-19 Misinformation in Swahili Language

Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research, 2023
The recorded cases of corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic disease are millions and its mortality rate was maximized during the period from April 2020 to January 2022.
Filbert Mlawa, Elizabeth Mkoba, Neema Mduma   +2 more
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Swahili language and literature as resources for Indian Ocean studies

History Compass, 2022
In this contribution, our common point of convergence as an anthropologist and a literary scholar is to see Swahili language, literature and other texts as interwoven with the depth, scope, and complex dynamics of human experience and social life on the ...
K. Kresse, C. Vierke
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