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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Setswana"”.
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Advanced Tongue Root harmony in Setswana.
… of Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) vowel harmony in Setswana, a language spoken in South Africa and Botswana. Setswana presents a particularly interesting problem as regards the analysis of harmonic patterns since there exists in the language evidence on the one hand that: (a) all vowels in a stem …
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Work-life interaction of Setswana speaking police officers : a phenomenological study
… life interaction (WPLI) experiences of Setswana speaking police officials. This study also concentrated on the existence of work-personal life interaction, aspects involved, consequences thereof and coping mechanisms employed by the police officers. A non-probability purposive voluntary …
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Language acquisition in Setswana speaking infants aged 8 to 18 months
Little is known about the early acquisition of Setswana, with only a few small-scale studies of children under three-years-old. To address this gap, teams from southern Africa are adapting the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) for local languages. The CDI is an assessment …
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The acquisition of Setswana phonology in children aged 2;0 – 6;5 years
… to describe the phonological development of Setswana-speaking children between the ages of 2;0 and 6;5 years. The study objectives were to: 1) describe the acquisition of four aspects of phonology in these children, namely vowels, consonants, lexical tone and phonological processes; 2) …
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Obligatory contour principle effects and violations: The case of Setswana verbal tone
… of the tonal patterns manifested in the verb of Setswana, a Southern Bantu language spoken in Botswana and South Africa. Verbal tone in this language is very complex because the tonal patterns fluctuate, depending on many factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, for example, the …
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Die rol van minderheidstaalmedia in taalbeplanningprosesse met verwysing na isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sepedi en Setswana
… van onder andere isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sepedi en Setswana, laat tradisionele taalbeplanningsprosesse ʼn leemte. Tradisionele taalbeplanningsprosesse, die bo-na-onder-benadering, behels taalbeplanningsituasies waar mense met mag en gesag taalverwante besluite vir groepe maak; dikwels met min …
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Phokelelo ya kgaso mo barutwaneng ba Setswana Puo ya Gae Mephato ya 11 le 12
Setswana: Botlhokwa jwa tiriso ya puo e e kannweng bo gatelelwa ke maitemogelo a a tseneletseng a dingwaga tse di fetang 30 a motlhotlhomisi jaaka morutabana wa Setswana Puo ya Gae. Maitemogelo a a fetang dingwaga di le 25 jaaka motshwai wa Setswana Puo ya Gae, Tlhatlhobo ya Mophato wa 12, gammogo …
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The acquisition of Setswana phonology in children aged 3;0 – 6;0 years : a cross-sectional study
… typical development of speech in first language Setswana speaking children. Thirty-six children, aged 3;0 – 6;0 years, attending preschools in Hebron in the North-West Province of South Africa, participated in the study. The objectives of the study were documenting the children’s ability to …
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My name is Afrika: Setswana genealogies, trans-atlantic interlocutions, and NOW-time in Keorapetse Kgositsile's life and work
South African poet laureate Keorapetse Kgositsile lived in extraordinary times marked by extraordinary challenges and changes. Born in 1938, exactly a decade before the draconian apartheid regime came into power, his life and work emerge from the milieus of British colonial South Africa, apartheid …
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Language attitudes in relation to language functions: An investigation of the attitudes of the Botswana Cambridge 'O' Level Senior Certificate (COSC) students
… in relation to the official functions of Setswana and English. The study assumes that: (1) there is a general positive attitude towards English and Setswana and that allows for bilingualism; (2) the students are instrumentally motivated to learn English because of the socio-economic gains …
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Genetic and dietary determinants of Type 2 diabetes in a black South African population
… using novel whole genome sequences of people of Setswana descent; 3) the nutrient patterns associated with glycated hemoglobin and fasting glucose in a black South African population. Methods: Four types of genetic risk scores (GRS) were computed using the 66 SNPs that had been associated with …
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Ethnic identity in a 'Homogeneous' Nation State
… That 90% of the population either speaks Setswana or belongs to Setswana speaking tribes. Secondly, it tests the fact that this perceived homogeneity connect to the countryâs democratic, economic and political success. The study uses existing Afrobarometer survey data drawn …
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Language variation in the Botswana speech community and its impact on children's education
… differences that exist in the spoken and written Setswana. Sociolinguistic factors such as language use are also dealt with. The problem of the use of non-standard varieties, as compared to the use of standard forms in the broad educational field is investigated.
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Usability engineering of interactive voice responsive (IVR) systems in oral users of Southern Africa
… by using a telephone in their native language of Setswana in Botswana, Southern Africa. The BGR system allows soccer fans to access results of recently played matches in Premier Soccer League (PSL) of South Africa.
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Silozi, a mixed language: an analysis of the noun class system and kinship terms
… and Thomas (1916) and Jalla (1936). Sesotho and Setswana native speakers were consulted for translations into the respective languages. The data analysis led to the following conclusions. Sesotho, Siluyana and some of the neighbouring languages contributed to Silozi significantly. The noun …
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A contrastive ethnographic case study of homes in Cape Town
… families shared a common relation to South Sotho/Setswana as their family heritage language, they differed widely in other respects, because of different social locations as middle class/working class families, including everyday language use and the social expectations of their young children.
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Sol Plaatje’s Shakespeare : translation and transition to modernity
… Largely, this agenda entails the preservation of Setswana language and culture, by recording and contextualising its proverbs, metaphors and vocabulary through an "appropriate orthography". These literary (linguistic schemes are part of Plaatje's major political ideal of a democratic, …
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Ancestral Pharmacopeias: A Paleoethnobotanical Assessment of Plant Use in the Western Free State, South Africa
… important native plants used by modern Setswana and Basotho inhabitants of the Western Free State, South Africa. I interviewed traditional healers and plant sellers in the vicinity of Erfkroon at Ikgomotseng, Bloemfontein, near the former Basotho homeland at Phutaditjhaba and the Basotho …
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Qualitative study of some effects of using English as a language of instruction at Standard 2 and 5 in the Botswana education system, where learners are not primary language speakers of English
… it looks at the role of the primary language (Setswana) as the foundation for the child's acquisition of new knowledge and hence subsequently his/her learning of L2. The data were collected qualitatively in three primary schools through interviews and classroom observations. All three schools …
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A study in language contact
… (Southern Sotho), Sepedi (Northern Sotho) and Setswana. UCT is a multilingual institution in the sense that the students, and to some extent the lecturers, are proficient in a number of languages including English, Afrikaans, and a wide range of African languages from within and outside South …
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