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Voicing the Voiceless: Developing a Dholuo Parallel Corpus for Natural Language Processing

Journal of Linguistics, Literary and Communication Studies
Despite the exponential growth of Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies worldwide, African indigenous languages remain severely underrepresented in digital language resources.
Quin Elizabeth Awuor
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A note on bare-passives in (selected) Bantu and Western Nilotic Languages

, 2014
In the present paper, we concentrate on (selected) Bantu and Nilotic bare-passive strategies and lay out the basis for a typology of transitive passive constructions in these languages. We argue that bare-passives constitute an optimal strategy to change
Hamlaoui, Fatima
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Reviews in the Issue 40 (2006)

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2006
Graham Furniss, Malami Buba, William Burgess, Bibliography of Hausa Popular Fiction (1987-2002), Köln, Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2004, 179 pp. (Stanislaw Pilaszewicz) 67 Marteen Kossmann, Berber Loanwords in Hausa, “Berber Studies”, 13, Köln, Rüdiger ...
Stanisław Piłaszewicz, Beata Wójtowicz, Izabela Will   +2 more
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Evidence of desert routes across northern Kharga (Egypt’s Western Desert)

, 2013
Kharga is the largest of Egypt’s five major oases in its Western Desert. It lies in an elongated depression, more than 180 km long in a north-south direction (between N 24° and 26°) and 15 to 20 km wide (between 30° and 31° E).
ROSSI, CORINNA, Ikram, Salima
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Nominal quantification in Kipsigis

, 2019
In this paper, I examine the syntax and semantics of nominal quantification in Kipsigis, a Nilotic language spoken in western Kenya. I present a compositional analysis of quantificational nominals and discuss how the Kipsigis patterns relate to previous ...
Landman, Meredith, Meredith Landman
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THE PREVALENCE OF LEPROSY AMONG DIFFERENT ETHNIC GROUPS IN THE BLUE NILE VALLEY OF WESTERN ETHIOPIA

, 2017
: An epidemiological study of leprosy among different ethnic groups in the Blue Nile valley of western Ethiopia was conducted to obtain baseline data on disease prevalence.
Chali Jira
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Haptic, visual and olfactory languages: Western Nilotic perceptions

Cet article traite des expressions de la perception sensuelle de l’ouest nilotique. La première partie de l’article présente une terminologie ophrésiologique en louo et burun et démontre que cette catégorie lexicale détient aussi une catégorie ...
Storch, Anne
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Die südlichen Lwoo-Sprachen Beschreibung, Vergleich und Rekonstruktion

, 2004
Describes and compares Western Nilotic/Lwoo languages Acholi, Adhola, Alur, Kumam, Lango, and ...
Heusing, Gerald
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Social stratification without genetic differentiation at the site of Kulubnarti in Christian Period Nubia. [PDF]

Nat Commun, 2021
Sirak KA, Fernandes DM, Lipson M, Mallick S, Mah M, Olalde I, Ringbauer H, Rohland N, Hadden CS, Harney É, Adamski N, Bernardos R, Broomandkhoshbacht N, Callan K, Ferry M, Lawson AM, Michel M, Oppenheimer J, Stewardson K, Zalzala F, Patterson N, Pinhasi R, Thompson JC, Van Gerven D, Reich D.   +24 more
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The Genetic Variation of Lactase Persistence Alleles in Sudan and South Sudan. [PDF]

Genome Biol Evol, 2021
Hollfelder N, Babiker H, Granehäll L, Schlebusch CM, Jakobsson M.   +4 more
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