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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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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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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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Styles of Swahili carving. [PDF]
, 1996 As a woodcarver since the age of fifteen, I have been a keen observer of carving patterns and motifs practiced by contemporary Swahili wood carvers. In my investigations, I discovered that carvers along the coast of East Africa, do not practice a uniform
Athman, Athman Hussein
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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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From seed to plant: vegetal images and metaphors in Swahili poetry
Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2016 The article analyses a few Swahili poems; the focusing on the use of metaphorical language and the resulting images in order to represent the cultural context in which both classical and modern Swahili poetry play its role as medium of knowledge. Swahili
Graziella Acquaviva
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Exploring Haji Gora Haji’s poetics in his collection Shuwari
Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2020 This article has its roots in a project carried out with Irene Brunotti (University of Leipzig), the result of which was the publication of a bilingual Swahili-English edition of the latest collection of poems by Haji Gora Haji, a well-known Swahili poet
Flavia Aiello
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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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