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Use of address forms in directive speech acts in Swahili

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 1997
Although the sociolingustic studies of the address rules developed very strongly as early as in the 1960s, Braun, Kohz and Schubert (1986) list only 12 references regarding AF in Bantu languages, which include Swahili, half of the references involving ...
Zofia Podobińska
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Dictionaries and the Standardization of Spelling in Swahili Woordeboeke en die standaardisering van spelling in Swahili

Lexikos, 2012
<p>The paper discusses the role of the dictionary in standardizing the spelling of Swahili. The discussion begins by defining key terms in this paper: spelling and standardization of spelling.
James S. Mdee
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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.
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Proverbs and Sayings of the Swahili Language in Written Discourse

RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism
Examines the peculiarities of the use of proverbs and sayings of the Swahili language in written discourse, especially in literature and modern media texts. Such a study is being conducted for the first time in Russian bantu studies. The aim to establish
Victoria S. Shatokhina
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Intensification Of Teaching Russian To Swahili Speakers

Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2010
The article provides a contrastive analysis of Russian and Swahili, some phonetic and grammar similarities and differences between two languages are defined.
E A Nazartseva, L I Chauzova
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Curriculum-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Bilingual Tutoring in Low-Resource Swahili–English Secondary Schools

Technologies
In Tanzanian secondary education, Swahili-language-based question-answering systems currently face systemic disparities and linguistic barriers, which undermine the fairness and justice of the educational system.
Innocent E. Rugemalila, Wei Cai, Xiaogang Zhang, Chuanwei Liu, Bang Wang   +4 more
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Printed text into machine-readable form [PDF]

, 2020
Currently, large projects are going on for digitizing old printed materials. It is assumed that when the text is in digital form, the search and retrieval of information from text becomes easy.
Hurskainen, Arvi
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Rwandans’ Attitudes Towards Swahili

Nordic Journal of African Studies
This paper reports findings from a study examining Rwandans’ attitudes towards Swahili across different occupational groups. The study hypothesized that there would be a relationship between Rwandans’ occupations and their attitudes towards Swahili ...
Gregoire Mbonankira, Alfred Buregeya, Zipporah Otiso   +2 more
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Swahili: A Donor Language [PDF]

Lingua Posnaniensis, 2011
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Constructing pronoun forms in English to Swahili machine translation [PDF]

, 2019
It is hard to find a linguistic feature, where English and Swahili are identical. While English verb has only five possible forms, Swahili verb has theoretically millions of valid forms.
Hurskainen, Arvi
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