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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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Greater Swahili – Swahili Varieties in L2+ Swahili Teaching
, 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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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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Bunia Swahili and Emblematic Language Use [PDF]
Journal of Language Contact, 2020 The present paper provides first insights into emblematic language use in Bunia Swahili, a variety of the Bantu language Swahili as spoken in and around the city of Bunia inIturi Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Structural variability in Bunia Swahili shows that this language variety consists of basilectal, mesolectal and acrolectal ...
Nico Nassenstein, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
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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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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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Better Word Representation Vectors Using Syllabic Alphabet: A Case Study of Swahili
Applied Sciences, 2019 Deep learning has extensively been used in natural language processing with sub-word representation vectors playing a critical role. However, this cannot be said of Swahili, which is a low resource and widely spoken language in East and Central Africa ...
Casper S. Shikali +3 more
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