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Journal articles on the topic "Sotho-Tswana languages"

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Suzman, Susan M. "Kay McCormick & R. Mestrie (eds.), Post-Apartheid South Africa. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 136. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999." Language in Society 30, no. 2 (2001): 265–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404501212056.

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In South Africa, the transition from an apartheid regime to a popularly elected government in 1994 made possible wide-ranging changes in power relations in every sphere of human interaction, including language. Under the new political dispensation, there are 11 official languages (listed in order of numbers of speakers): Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Tswana, North Sotho, English, South Sotho, Tsonga, Swati, Ndebele, and Venda. They replace English and Afrikaans, formerly the 2 official languages.

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Prinsloo, Danie J. "Electronic Dictionaries viewed from South Africa." HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business 18, no. 34 (2017): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v18i34.25798.

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The aim of this article is to evaluate currently available electronic dictionaries from a South African perspective for the eleven ofﬁcial languages of South Africa namely English, Afrikaans and the nine Bantu languages Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Southern Sotho, Tswana, Tsonga and Venda. A brief discussion of the needs and status quo for English and Afrikaans will be followed by a more detailed discussion of the unique nature and consequent electronic dictionary requirements of the Bantu languages. In the latter category the focus will be on problematic aspects of lemmatisati

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Zeller, Jochen, and J. Paul Ngoboka. "Agreement with locatives in Kinyarwanda: a comparative analysis." Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 39, no. 1 (2018): 65–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jall-2018-0003.

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AbstractIn Bantu languages such as Chichewa or Herero, locatives can function as subjects and show noun class agreement (in class 16, 17 or 18) with predicates and modifiers. In contrast, (preverbal) locatives in Sotho-Tswana and Nguni have been analysed as prepositional adjuncts, which cannot agree. Our paper compares locatives in Kinyarwanda (JD61) with locatives in these other Bantu languages and demonstrates that the Kinyarwanda locative system is essentially of the Chichewa/Herero type. We show that Kinyarwanda locatives are nominal in nature, can act as subjects, and agree with predicate

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Sebina, Boikanyego, and Thapelo Joseph Otlogetswe. "Syllable Structure in Setswana Personal Names." Вопросы Ономастики 20, no. 2 (2023): 174–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/vopr_onom.2023.20.2.020.

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The study analyses the characteristics of syllables in personal names of the Setswana (Tswana) language (Sotho subgroup of the Bantu languages, Southern Africa). The authors focus on 1,001 most frequent names extracted from a dataset of 1,093,265 names using Wordsmith Tools. Of all the studied names, 55.5% are male, while 40.2% are female and 4.3% — unisex names. Most Setswana names have three syllables followed by those with four syllables (more than 70% of the studied personal names are either three or four syllable names), ﬁve syllable names are the third most common, while six syllable nam

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Motsamayi, Mathodi Freddie. "Cattle culture and colour symbolism as reflected in selected artworks of Sotho-Tswana in South Africa." South African Journal of African Languages 40, no. 3 (2020): 297–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2020.1855723.

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Alberts, Mariëtta. "The South African National Lexicography Units — Two Decades Later." Lexikos, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5788/32-3-1729.

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The lexicography practice in South Africa has distinctive features and to a great extent relates to the political dispensation current at a given period. During the previous political dispensation only two dictionary units existed in South Africa that were state funded, namely the Bureau of the Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (WAT) and the Dictionary for South African English (DSAE). These dictionary units, therefore have a long dictionary history. Some of the African languages, such as Xhosa, Zulu, Tswana and Northern Sotho also had dictionary units at the time but they were situated at an

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Zerbian, Sabine, and Frank Kügler. "Sequences of high tones across word boundaries in Tswana." Journal of the International Phonetic Association, October 6, 2021, 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025100321000141.

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The article analyses violations of the Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP) above the word level in Tswana, a Southern Bantu language, by investigating the realization of adjacent lexical high tones across word boundaries. The results show that across word boundaries downstep (i.e. a lowering of the second in a series of adjacent high tones) only takes place within a phonological phrase. A phonological phrase break blocks downstep, even when the necessary tonal configuration is met. A phrase-based account is adopted in order to account for the occurrence of downstep. Our study confirms a pattern

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Zerbian, S. "A contrastive analysis of the sound structure of Sotho-Tswana for second-language acquisition." Journal for Language Teaching 43, no. 2 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jlt.v43i2.56988.

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Barnard, Adi, Sebastiaan Rothmann, and Deon Meiring. "The cross-cultural application of the social axioms survey in The South African police service." SA Journal of Industrial Psychology 34, no. 2 (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajip.v34i2.474.

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The objectives of this study were to investigate the replicability, construct equivalence, item bias and reliability of the Social Axioms Survey (SAS) in the South African Police Service (SAPS). A cross-sectional survey design was used. the participants consisted of applicants who had applied for jobs in the SAPS (n = 1535), and the SAS was administered to them. An exploratory factor analysis utilising target rotation applied to all 60 items of the SAS revealed four interpretable factors (Social Cynicism, reward for Application, Fate Control, and Spirituality/religiosity). Values of tucker’s p

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Campbell, Sandy. "The Swazi People by R. Van der Wiel." Deakin Review of Children's Literature 3, no. 3 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.20361/g2qp5z.

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Van der Wiel, Renée. The Swazi People. Gallo Manor, South Africa: Awareness Publishing Group, 2012. Print.South Africa describes itself as “one rainbow nation going forward”, but within that rainbow there are eleven indigenous South African peoples. The Swazi People is one of eleven volumes in the African Cultures of South Africa series, which presents the cultures for readers at the upper elementary level. The other volumes include the cultures of The Khoikhoi, The Ndebele, The North Sotho, The San, The South Sotho, The Tsonga-Shangaan, The Tswana, The Venda, The Xhosa, and The Zulu.In The Sw

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Sotho-Tswana languages"

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Havenga, Brenda. "Die samestelling van die Sotho-taalgroep." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/9267.

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M.A. (African Languages)<br>Africa encompasses such a variety of languages and language types that even today linguistic science is somewhat at a loss to describe the mutual relationships between all these languages. This study is concerned with the Sotho group of Bantu languages. The existing classifications of the Sotho group are examined with regard to the classification criteria employed and how consistently and correctly these have been applied. A critical consideration of these classifications brings to light a considerable number of problems which show the classifications to be inadequa

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Books on the topic "Sotho-Tswana languages"

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Wilken, Pam. Understanding everyday Sesotho: A vocabulary and reference book = Buka ya tlotlontswe le katoloso ya tsebo. Maskew Miller Longman, 1994.

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M, Chebanne A., ed. Unifying southern African languages: Harmonisation and standardisation. CASAS, 2003.

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Reader's Digest Association South Africa., ed. South African multi-language dictionary and phrase book: English, Afrikaans, Northern Sotho, Sesotho, Tswana, Xhosa, and Zulu. Readerʼs Digest Association South Africa, 1991.

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Nthuseng, Tsoeu, and Buthelezi Thabisile, eds. Multilingual illustrated dictionary: English, IsiZulu, Sesotho, IsiXhosa, Setswana, Afrikaans, Sepedi : dictionary, isichazimazwi, bukantswe, isichazi-magama, bukafoko, woordeboek, pukuntšu. Pharos, 2006.

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Understanding Everyday. Hippocrene Books, 1994.

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Kriel, T. J., Sathekge, and D. J. Prinsloo. Popular Northern Sotho Dictionary. NB Publishers Limited, 2011.

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The English Afrikaans Northern Sotho Tswana Aid Word Lists Phrases In Four Languages. Pharos Books, 2010.

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The standard unified orthography for Sotho-Tswana languages: Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. CASAS, 2003.

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South African multilingual dictionary. IO Publishing, 2014.

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UYS, Isabel. Six Language Picture Aid: English;Afrikaans;Xhosa;Zulu;Northern Sotho;Tswana. Protea Boekhuis, 2010.

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Book chapters on the topic "Sotho-Tswana languages"

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Zerbian, Sabine. "Sentence intonation in Tswana (Sotho-Tswana group)." In Intonation in African Tone Languages, edited by Laura J. Downing and Annie Rialland. De Gruyter, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110503524-012.

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Bryan, M. A. "Sotho-Tswana Group." In The Bantu Languages of Africa. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315104959-76.

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Singh, Shawren. "HCI in South Africa." In Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction. IGI Global, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-562-7.ch041.

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South Africa is a multi-lingual country with a population of about 40.5 million people. South Africa has more official languages at a national level than any other country in the world. Over and above English and Afrikaans, the eleven official languages include the indigenous languages: Southern Sotho, Northern Sotho, Tswana, Zulu, Xhosa, Swati, Ndebele, Tsonga, and Venda (Pretorius & Bosch, 2003). Figure 1 depicts the breakdown of the South African official languages as mother tongues for South African citizens. Although English ranks fifth (9%) as a mother tongue, there is a tendency among national leaders, politicians, business people, and officials to use English more frequently than any of the other languages. In a national survey on language use and language interaction conducted by the Pan South African Language Board (Language Use and Board Interaction in South Africa, 2000), only 22% of the respondents indicated that they fully understand speeches and statements made in English, while 19% indicated that they seldom understand information conveyed in English. The rate of electrification in South African is 66.1%. The total number of people with access to electricity is 28.3 million, and the total number of people without access to electricity is 14.5 million (International Energy Agency, 2002). Although the gap between the “haves” and “have-nots” is narrowing, a significant portion of the South African population is still without the basic amenities of life. This unique environment sets the tone for a creative research agenda for HCI researchers and practitioners in South Africa.

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