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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Bantu Languages"”.
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BantuBERTa : using language family grouping in multilingual language modeling for Bantu languages
It was researched whether a multilingual Bantu pretraining corpus could be created from freely available data. Here, to create the dataset, Bantu text extracted from datasets that are freely available online (mainly from Huggingface) were used. The resulting multilingual language model (BantuBERTa) …
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Ontology verbalization in agglutinating Bantu languages: a study of Runyankore and its generalizability
… they generate text in English, yet indigenous languages are still predominantly spoken throughout the continent, especially in rural areas. The existing healthcare NLG systems cannot be reused for Bantu languages due to the complex grammatical structure, nor can the generated text be used in …
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Using language similarities in retrieval for resource scarce languages: a study of several southern Bantu languages
Most of the Web is published in languages that are not accessible to many potential users who are only able to read and understand their local languages. Many of these local languages are Resources Scarce Languages (RSLs) and lack the necessary resources, such as machine translation tools, to make …
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An Element-geometry Approach to Depressors in Bantu & Chinese
… the literature, systematic studies on depressor languages and analyses on depressors and tone interactions in a representational approach are still not fully investigated. In particular, depressor effects of Chinese Wu dialects have attracted much less attention than Bantu languages. The …
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The syntax of verb phrases in Tonga: a corpus-based study
… phrases in Tonga language which is one of the Bantu languages found in Southern Province of Zambia. The descriptive study was carried out to examine whether or not verb phrases in Tonga can be analysed using insights from Government Binding (GB). Data was collected from Tonga written texts and …
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The syntax of verb phrases in Tonga: a corpus-based study
… phrases in Tonga language which is one of the Bantu languages found in Southern Province of Zambia. The descriptive study was carried out to examine whether or not verb phrases in Tonga can be analysed using insights from Government Binding (GB). Data was collected from Tonga written texts and …
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Aspects of the phonology of Sukwa: an optimality theoretic analysis
Phonological studies of Bantu languages have continued to be an area of investigation for many scholars over the years. These studies have discussed the language's sound patterns syllable structures, phonological processes and suprasegmental features and have based their analyses on various …
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The sound system of Southern Sotho
… and Tswana, it belongs to the Sotho group of Bantu languages, which is one of five such groups, together constituting the south-eastern Bantu language zone.
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Dialect variation in a cross-border language: a sociolinguistic study of Silozi in Zambia and Namibia
… Contrastingly, in Mongu, Silozi is the main Bantu language, with others spoken minimally. A consequence of this is that the Katima Mulilo variety contained more lexical borrowings from other Bantu languages compared to Mongu. However, both varieties borrowed more lexicon from English than …
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Die taalgebruik van die Buyse van Mara
… that can not be ascribed to contact with Bantu languages are discussed and in the last chapter the possibilities of the survival of the Buys dialect are examined.
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A comparison of mobile search interfaces for isiXhosa speakers
… a long time been targeted at the resource-rich languages, such as English. There has been little effort to support African (Bantu) languages in search interfaces when compared to languages such as English, particularly the isiXhosa language. However, due to the increase in use of mobile phones …
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Characterization of Genomic Variation Related to Hair and Skin Phenotypes in the Khoesan Speakers of Southern Africa
… many different ethnic groups that do not speak Bantu languages. They are foragers with a complex history: they descended from the earliest diversification event for Homo sapiens, interacted with neighboring populations through migrations, and grappled with colonization. To investigate the …
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The Syntax and Typology of Bantu Relative Clauses
… complementizer-type relative clauses in the Bantu languages, focusing on strong correlations between points of variation. The facts I discuss concern co-variation between agreement in the C-T domain and subject-verb inversion as well as co-variation between object agreement and resumption and …
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A comparative analysis of the phonology and morpho-syntax of Cisukwa, Cindali and Cilambya
… one language or as constituting three distinct languages. The study also places the SuNdaLa cluster into a wider context of the Bantu languages spoken in the region and more generally. Quantitative and qualitative language data was collected in the field from "native" speakers of all three …
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The contribution of the (Carnegie) Non-European Library Service, Transvaal, to the development of library services for Africans in South Africa : an historical and evaluative study
… and two books for children written in the Bantu languages. The administering Committee has also provided many opportunities for the exchange of information on various aspects of library development for Non- Whites, and particularly for Africans. In its efforts to promote through reading, …
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Non-verbal predication and copular variation in Eastern Bantu
… of non-verbal predication in five Great Lakes Bantu languages, namelyKihavu (JD52), Mashi (JD53), Kinyamulenge (JD61a), Kirundi (JD62), and Kifuliiru (JD63). Ishow that the form of the copula in these languages is sensitive to particular environmental factors,resulting in similar patterns of …
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Towards the Development of an IsiXhosa Adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory for Toddlers
… Inventory (CDI) into Southern African languages. 1 The adaptation stems from the growing dissatisfaction regarding the dearth of speech and language assessments and therapeutic tools currently available in South Africa for isiXhosa or other local languages (Pascoe and Smouse, 2012; …
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An investigation into the phenological and morphological integration of German loanwords into Oshiwambo
Oshiwambo, a Bantu language spoken in Northern Namibia and Southern Angola, like other languages in contact, has adapted foreign words from other languages to meet the needs of its daily life vocabularies and activities. This thesis is based on the hypothesis that words borrowed from other …
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A comparative study of bemba and mambwe at phonological, morphological and lexical levels.
… All the informants are proficient in the languages under study. Collaboration of the participants has made this study a success. Two theoretical frameworks informed this study: Lexical phonology theoretical framework which was developed by Kiparsky and others in 1980s. It is an approach to …
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A comparative study of bemba and mambwe at phonological, morphological and lexical levels.
… All the informants are proficient in the languages under study. Collaboration of the participants has made this study a success. Two theoretical frameworks informed this study: Lexical phonology theoretical framework which was developed by Kiparsky and others in 1980s. It is an approach to …
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