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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"isiNdebele"”.
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Some sociolinguistic aspects of Southern Ndebele as spoken in South Africa
… exerted by other languages surrounding the isiNdebele language. It looks at processes like borrowing, adaptations and in some cases partial and total assimilation. It also looks at the means used by the isiNdebele language in a bit to resist the forces of "prestigious" languages. Chapter 4 …
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Construction of sexualities and sexual identities among young Ndebele women
… group interviews were conducted with forty-one IsiNdebele speaking young women between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, who resided in different townships and rural villages of former KwaNdebele. Through thematic analysis, the study revealed that the sexual socialization of the girl child by …
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The Implementation of the South African Language Policy by Local Government. A Case Study.
… (provincial) languages: Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, and SiSwati. This study aims to investigate the implementation of the South African language policy by a local municipality in Mpumalanga. The data presented in this thesis were gathered using semi-structured interviews with executive …
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Ucwaningo ngemithelela yezilimi ezimbili: isiSwazi nesiNdebele ezinganeni ezifunda isiZulu esifundazweni saseMpumalanga
… kwawo ukhuluma ulimi olungaba isiSwazi noma isiNdebele. Ulimi lwesiZulu lusebenza njengolimi lwasesikoleni, emphakathini kuvame isiSwazi nesiNdebele. Imitapo yolwazi etholakala emphakathini waseSifundazweni saseMpumalanga unezincwadi ezimbalwa ezibhalwe ngolimi lwesiZulu. Izincwadi eziningi …
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Exploring a common learning, teaching and assessment framework for isiNguni languages in South Africa
… for the South African isiNguni languages, viz. isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu and siSwati. In order to meet this primary aim of the study, a number of objectives had to be attained. Firstly, some linguistic similarities, discrepancies and complexities based on recently published terminology …
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'Heteroglossia in IsiXhosa/English bilingual children's writing: a case study of Grade 6 IsiXhosa Home Language in a Township School
… language family which also comprises of isiZulu, isiNdebele, and siSwati. IsiXhosa is mostly spoken in the Eastern and Western Cape Provinces. Those that regard isiXhosa as their home language (HL) are referred to as amaXhosa. However, as a teacher of isiXhosa HL, I have observed that there is …
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Language practice as an asset in a multilingual and multicultural context.
… languages, which are Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, IsiNdebele, Siswati, Xitsonga, Tshivenda, IsiZulu and IsiXhosa, are now embraced as official languages of South Africa, effectively meaning that communication must also be made available in these languages. It became pertinent to investigate …
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Menstruation Matters: (De)constructing menstrual preparation as reproductive labour-work in rural Zimbabwe
… (ukungena esikhathini – in the African language, isiNdebele) as an in-road to locating gender gaps in international development discourse. I do this in order to highlight why ‘menstruation matters'. The dissertation zooms in on Zimbabwe's policy landscape and the ways in which it treats …
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Subword segmental neural language generation for Nguni languages
… languages of South Africa -- isiXhosa, isiZulu, isiNdebele, and Siswati. The Nguni languages are agglutinative and conjunctively written, so words are formed by stringing together morphemes. We design neural models that suit the morphological complexity of the Nguni languages by explicitly …