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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Luganda"”.
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Language, Ideology and Power in Uganda
… ultra-valorizes English (and to some extent Luganda) over Kiswahili and other Ugandan languages, the state tends to draw its models from Anglophone East African discursive practice more broadly, which value English and Kiswahili more equally. Emerging from partially overlapping …
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BantuBERTa : using language family grouping in multilingual language modeling for Bantu languages
… on MasakhaNER’s Bantu language tests (Swahili, Luganda, and Kinyarwanda). Additionally, it produced state of the art results for the Bantu language benchmarks (Zulu, and Lingala) in the African News Topic Classification dataset. It was surmised that the pretraining dataset size (which was 30% …
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The Phonology and Phonetics of Word-Initial Geminates
… sounds in Leti, Chuukese, Cypriot Greek, and Luganda. The observed patterning of initial geminates indicates the need for revision of currentlydefended models of prosodic representation. Specifically, it is shown that the diverse patterning of geminates in these languages is best accounted for …
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Political theologies in late colonial Buganda
… in massive literary output preserved in the Luganda press, party pamphlets and personal correspondence. Written evidence is taken from private papers, institutional archives and the local and international press. This project is shaped further by oral ethnography. By suggesting that Buganda’s …
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We are Not Mahogany an Exploration of the Social Construction of Masculinity in Ugandan Meaning-Making
… The title "We Are Not Mahogany" is from a Luganda saying used to encourage living in the moment, a trait the participants either espoused or observed in others. (Mahogany trees live longer than most trees in the region.) These new insights can be used to create more informed pedagogy, …
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Ontology verbalization in agglutinating Bantu languages: a study of Runyankore and its generalizability
… We obtained verbalization patterns for Luganda and isiXhosa, in the same zones as Runyankore and isiZulu respectively, and chiShona, Kikuyu, and Kinyarwanda from different zones, and used the bootstrap metric that we developed to identify the most efficient source—target bootstrap pair. …