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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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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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إشكالية ترجمة أخبار الأدب من السواحيلية إلى العربية من خلال موقع بي بي سي سواحيلي [PDF]
مجلة الدراسات الإنسانية والأدبية, 2023 تناقش هذه الدراسة "إشكالية ترجمة أخبار الأدب من السواحيلية إلى العربية من خلال موقع بي بي سي سواحيلي"، تتناول الدراسة الصعوبات التي تواجه المترجم بين اللغة العربية واللغة السواحيلية في مجال الترجمة الأدبية وخاصة ترجمة الأخبار الأدبية. وألقت الدراسة الضوء
حسام محمد رمضان
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Investigating the Phonetic CLI on Swahili TLA The acquisition of nasal plosive by L1 Mandarin speakers learning English (L2) and Swahili (L3) [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2023 Swahili is an increasingly important language in China with its utility in the Belt and Road Initiative. A number of previous studies in third language acquisition (TLA) applied the concept of crosslinguistic influence (CLI), but there are scant studies ...
Zhang Yufei
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A Bantu Ghost in Uralistics? [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 Swahili is not to be taken as evidence for an original Uralic lingua franca in this guilt-by-association way, simply because it does not originate in any pidgin or creole language. Arabic can be said to play the same role in the development of Swahili as
André Hesselbäck
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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.
Kraska-Szlenk, Iwona
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Does Speaking the Same Language With the Caretakers Associate With a Higher Neuraxial Labor Analgesia Use Rate? [PDF]
Acta Anaesthesiol ScandABSTRACT Use of neuraxial analgesia requires communication between the parturient and her caretakers. In this retrospective study, the use of labor analgesia is compared between parturients whose primary language is other than Finnish or Swedish and who don't communicate in these languages or English without an interpreter (Category I), who communicate
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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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Swahili and Swahili poetry in Lubumbashi: The language and lyrics of Sando Marteau [PDF]
, 2018 The article introduces the singer and poet from Lubumbashi, known under the artistic name of Sando Marteau, and presents some of the poet’s lyrics. These texts serve as the basis of an exposition of the variety of Swahili spoken in Katanga, “Lubumbashi Swahili” or “Katanga/Shaba Swahili”.
Rettová, Alena
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