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The syntactic features and emotional impact of Xitsonga interjections

Literator
The syntactic features and emotional impacts of interjections in Xitsonga have been largely overlooked in existing literature. This article aims to close this gap by exploring these aspects.
Respect Mlambo, Madala C. Hlungwani
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Coping with stillbirth: Insights from parents in rural Limpopo, South Africa [PDF]

Journal of Public Health in Africa
Background: Stillbirth continues to be a significant global public health issue. Effective coping mechanisms are essential for parents to process their grief and heal after a stillbirth.
Lunghile Shivambo, Dumile Gumede
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An overview of Xitsonga reduplication constructions

South African Journal of African Languages
Word-formation processes leading to abbreviations such as clipping, blending and acronyms occur only partially, or do not occur at all, in Xitsonga. In constrast, one of the most productive word-formation processes in Xitsonga is reduplication. Several studies have been conducted in various languages on reduplication.
Lebogang Steven Shirindzi, Arnold Mushwana   +1 more
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Anticausatives with passives of subordinate intransitive clauses in Xitsonga

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2019
Literature shows that anticausatives have been well investigated in European languages such as English, German, and Greek. However, this is not the case with African languages, particularly Bantu languages such as Xitsonga.
Hlungwani, Madala Crous
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An analysis of homonymy and polysemy in Xitsonga

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
Certain words are often presumed to be understood by speakers, which creates an assumption that all listeners understand their meanings. These terms may have two distinct meanings, referred to as homonyms, or more than two related meanings, known as polysemes. This can lead to ambiguity and misinterpretation when extra contextual information is lacking.
exaly   +3 more sources

The Lexicographic Treatment of Xitsonga Kinship Terminologies in Selected Bilingual Dictionaries

African Journal of Inter-Multidisciplinary Studies
Kinship terminologies, which vary across cultures and languages, present challenges for lexicographers in creating bilingual dictionaries. Effective bilingual dictionaries must accurately and comprehensively reflect kinship terms and their equivalents ...
Respect Mlambo, Muzi Matfunjwa
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A Manifesto for (De)growth. Disruptive (De)Growth Repository of Southern Ecosystems [PDF]

ARQ, 2022
Hunguta formed after the open call for the 2019 Oslo Architecture Triennale, taking the Xitsonga word for ‘decrease’ as its name. The multidisciplinary collective engages with degrowth practices in the context of the Global South.
Hunguta
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Language of instruction in schools in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A systematic review

Campbell Systematic Reviews, Volume 19, Issue 4, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Based on the theory of change, we gather, organize, and synthesize the evidence on the impact of three language of instruction (LOI) choices (teaching in mother tongue [MT] with later transition, teaching in a non‐MT language, or teaching in two or more languages at one time) on literacy and biliteracy outcomes.
Pooja Nakamura, Adria Molotsky, Rosa Castro Zarzur, Varsha Ranjit, Yasmina Haddad, Thomas De Hoop   +5 more
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Some notes on the early history of the Tembe, 1280 AD-1800 AD

Contree, 2017
The Tembe tribe, which resides south of Maputo Bay, originates from the present day Zimbabwe and is also linked through archaeological evidence to the ancient state of Mapungubwe. It migrated to Mozambique and later occupied the land south of Maputo Bay,
Mandla Mathebula
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The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK

Literature Compass, Volume 20, Issue 10-12, October-December 2023., 2023
Abstract Will students raised on social media still read English literature? What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India, Australasia, the USA? What is the role of English language in relation to other global and local languages? What is the role of decolonising efforts?
Regenia Gagnier
wiley   +1 more source