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Language and social structure : A case study of the tourism industry in Kenya [PDF]
, 1983 In this study I investigate the question who speaks which language to whom and for what purpose on the basis of a conceptualization of society which differs from previous sociolinguistic research.
Crampton, Diana
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Reduplication in Swahili language
Reduplication is a characteristic feature in Bantu languages, including Swahili. This feature is found in verbs and pronouns. It is not possible to describe all nuances of meaning for all occurrences of reduplication. However, such features as emphasis, continuous action, and sometimes relaxed or playful action can be found. The study of these features
Hurskainen, Arvi
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Verb extensions in Swahili language
As all Bantu languages, Swahili has a complex structure of verb extensions. The extended verbs provide various types of changes to the meaning of the base form. The meaning of the extended verb can usually be derived from the combination of the base verb and the extension clitics.
Hurskainen, Arvi
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The verbal stem ngali in Swahili language
The morpheme ngali occurs as a verb and verb prefix in Swahili language. As a verb, ngali has a restricted distribution. It can take a noun class prefix and also the temporal/conditional prefix ki. As a verb prefix, ngali encodes the conditional form in past perfective.
Hurskainen, Arvi
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Greater Swahili – Swahili Varieties in L2+ Swahili Teaching [PDF]
, 2023 In this paper, I focus on what we could call the ‘myth of Standard Swahili’ and its consequences for language teaching. Instead of distinguishing between ‘standard’ and ‘deviant’ varieties of Swahili, I suggest the term Greater Swahili to designate the ...
Waldburger, Daniela
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SWAHILI ARCHITECTURE: A HERITAGE OF THE EAST COAST OF AFRICA
AMJAU, African and Mediterranean Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2023 Swahili architecture, which developed along the Swahili Coast in East Africa, represents a remarkable amalgamation of African, Arab, and South Asian influences.
Noura Ahmed Sadik +3 more
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Data in Brief, 2020 Natural Language Processing requires data to be pre-processed to guarantee quality models in different machine learning tasks. However, Swahili language have been disadvantaged and is classified as low resource language because of inadequate data for NLP
Bernard Masua, Noel Masasi
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The noncausal/causal alternation in Swahili
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022 Haspelmath (1993) investigates types of noncausal/causal alternation and examines 31 verb pairs in 21 languages, including Swahili, a Bantu language spoken in East Africa.
Nobuko Yoneda
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Modern Swahili: an integration of Arabic culture into Swahili literature
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2018 Due to her geographical position, the African continent has for many centuries hosted visitors from other continents such as Asia and Europe. Such visitors came to Africa as explorers, missionaries, traders and colonialists. Over the years, the continent
Hanah Chaga Mwaliwa
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Uundaji wa Istilahi za Kiswahili Kileksikografia na Athari zake
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2007 The promotion of terminology has been one of the challenges of the development of Swahili language, especially after the year 1967 when Swahili was handed over the new responsibilities of being the official language in the activities of the government ...
S. S. Sewangi
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