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The impact of phonetics and phonology on the Xitsonga orthography [PDF]

, 2013
Thesis (M.A. ( Translation and Linguistics)) -- University of Limpopo, 2013The aim of this dissertation is to examine the impact of phonetics and phonology on the Xitsonga orthography.
Maluleke, Rivalani
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The use of technology to preserve indigenous languages of South Africa

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Indigenous languages in South Africa must be preserved to ensure that they do not lose their identity and become extinct. The four indigenous languages with the fewest speakers among South Africa’s 12 official languages are: Xitsonga, Siswati, Tshivenḓa ...
Respect Mlambo, Muzi Matfunjwa
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Language Policy Implementation For Service Delivery: A Case Study of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality in South Africa [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
South African local authorities (i.e., local government sector) have a responsibility to develop and strengthen Southern Bantu languages as prescribed by the country’s Constitution.
Khayelihle Phumlani Nkosi, Thabo Ditsele
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Food fortification knowledge in women of child-bearing age at Nkowankowa township in Mopani District, Limpopo Province, South Africa

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2016
Background: Globally, there is evidence that three micronutrients deficiencies are of public health concern among children. They are vitamin A, iodine and iron deficiencies.
Selekane A. Motadi, Vanessa Mbhatsani, Kulani O. Shilote   +2 more
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Datasets for South African Languages: Bilingual Aligned and Monolingual Data for Machine Translation

Journal of Open Humanities Data
This data paper describes machine translation datasets built for the Autshumato project. The datasets contain both bilingual aligned data between English and all other official written languages of South Africa, namely Afrikaans (ISO 639-3: afr ...
Tanja Gaustad, Cindy A. McKellar, Martin J. Puttkammer   +2 more
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NCHLT Xitsonga fastText-Skipgram embeddings

, 2023
Static word and subword embeddings for the Skipgram flavour of the fastText architecture (Bojanowski et al., 2017).
Roald Eiselen
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NCHLT Xitsonga Auxiliary Speech Corpus

, 2019
The corpus contains orthographically transcribed broadband speech in each of South Africa's eleven official languages.
Laura Martinus, Jaco Badenhorst, Febe de Wet   +2 more
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Towards the marking of noun class 8 and its agreement morpheme in Xitsonga

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The purpose of the study was to examine the noun class associated with the generic agreement morpheme in Xitsonga and to unpack whether the noun class and its agreement morpheme can be discussed in terms of the theory of markedness.
Sikheto J. Kubayi
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Break and bend verbs in Xitsonga [PDF]

, 2004
Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2004.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The break and bend verbs in Xitsonga forms part of the larger verb class of verbs of change of state. Such verbs show two events, i.e. a process and a transition.
Malungani, Evelyn Tintswalo
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The Behavioral and Emotional Impact of Growing Up Without Parents Among Adolescents in Conflict with the Law in a Secure Care Center in the Limpopo Province, South Africa

Adolescents
Growing up without parental care may negatively affect adolescents’ behavioral and emotional development, particularly among adolescents in conflict with the law.
Esther Shuma, Josephine Mudau, Kingsley Amaechi, Winter Mokhwelepa, Olivia Sumbane   +4 more
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