Search Results - Swahili language
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The relationship between dictionary look-up frequency and corpus frequency revisited: a log-file analysis of a decade of user interaction with a Swahili-English dictionary
Published 2019“…In an earlier publication it was claimed that there is no useful relationship between Swahili- English dictionary look-up frequencies and the occurrence frequencies for the same wordforms in Swahili-English corpora, at least not beyond the top few thousand wordforms. …”
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The contribution of languages of Muslim-majority speakers to English vocabulary
Published 2012“…Not much is known about the lexical items from Swahili, Fulani, Wolof and Tatar, for instance. This study is an attempt to discover the various vocabulary items from languages of Muslim-majority speakers that have found their way into the international lingua franca and thus used internationally and regionally. …”
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Uganda: A country profile
Published 2012“…Baganda, Banyankole, Bahima, Bakiga, Bunyoro, Batoro, Basoga, Bagisu, Langi, Acholi, Lugbara, Karamojong and others.English is the official language by virtue of Article 6(1) of the 1995 Constitution and Swahili is also widely spoken especially in the urban areas.Uganda has no State religion.As a country, Uganda has witnessed some positive development in the area of security.The government managed to plant the seeds of peace in the north by defeating the Lord Resistance Army (LRA) led by Joseph Kony.…”
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