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Kencorpus: A Kenyan Language Corpus of Swahili, Dholuo and Luhya for Natural Language Processing Tasks [PDF]
Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics, 2022 Indigenous African languages are categorized as under-served in Natural Language Processing. They therefore experience poor digital inclusivity and information access.
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Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2023 This study interrogates the strategic use of code-switching involving Standard Swahili, English, and Kiswahili cha Mtaani in audio-visual advertisements by telecommunication companies (Telecos) in Tanzania.
J. Dzahene-Quarshie, Felix Kwame Sosoo
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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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Journal of Applied Science, Information and Computing, 2020 To examine challenges to health-literacy with a focus on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Tanzania and to develop a Chatbot for NCDs in Swahili language.
Sanni Shamsudeen A, Neema Rajabu
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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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Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2003 Swahili, an important indigenous language of wider communication in Eastern and Central African countries, has been and continues to be used effectively in specialist communication for almost three decades now.
H. J. M. Mwansoko
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Le kiswahili : une politique linguistique d’exception au Tanganyika
Les Cahiers d’Afrique de l’Est, 2012 This article presents the language policy in Tanganyika under German and British colonizations through textbooks. In this territory, the language of instruction was Swahili, an African language used and propagated by Muslim traders, and then European ...
Aude Chanson
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Negotiating Authority between Family Members at Work in Iringa, Tanzania
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2022 This article focuses on a single interaction taking place in a tree nursery located in a village of the Iringa Region in Tanzania. In a country which built its unity around one language, Swahili, this article intends to show how code-switching between ...
Nathaniel Gernez
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Educational Publishing in African Languages, With a Focus on Swahili in Kenya
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2002 This paper argues the case for more educational publications in Swahili as a good medium educational and national development. It acknowledges that education is not only a capital investment in the development of human resources but it also immensely ...
Nathan Oyori Ogechi, Emily Bosire-Ogechi
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