Some features of the morphology of Swahili are discussed from the point of view of mechanizing a dictionary. A preliminary program is described. To the best of my knowledge, no work has previously been carried out on the mechanical translation of any Bantu language. This note is therefore a first suggestion of a possible basis for a scheme for the mechanical translation of Swahili into English....

1. Introduction The Swahili object marker (OM) is a verbal prefix that agrees with an object of the verb. In Swahili there is no semantic or lexical class of objects for which object marking is obligatory, nor is there any class for which it is impossible. The numerous earlier studies of the object marker have discovered no hard and fast rules for its distribution. Its usage has been found to c...

Abstract COVID-19 pandemic rampaged the health of world population for a very short period, from December 2019 to-date. Since attacked each nation, in this article I discuss representation information headlines front pages “Habarileo”, “Mwananchi” and “Uhuru” newspapers circulated Tanzania. Much entrench transmission prevention, as most verbs nouns frame them. The contents reinforce political m...

Recently, much attention has focused on the so-called Root Infinitive(RI) phenomenon, where children in languages such as German use infinitival verbs in root context, seemingly optionally. English has been argued to be an RI language (Wexler 1994), though English speaking children use bare stems instead of infinitives. Languages such as Italian, however, have been shown not to exhibit RIs in e...

'[The port of ] Somanâth [Gujarat] has become so successful because it is […] a stopping point for people travelling between Sofala and the Zanj country and China' (al-Bîrûnî, ca. 1030, trans. The historical developments of East Africa and its region are illuminated by the cycles of the Eurasian and African world-system, where the Indian Ocean is embedded. It is in this framework that we can be...

This article investigates the Arabic component of Standard Swahili lexicon, aiming to identify Omani dialect which comprises dominant donor loanwords Swahili. I isolate words from this “donor dialect” other dialects that have influenced Swahili, and compare lexical archive with data on dialectology phonology verbal morphology. find that, contrary widespread assumptions, documented Oman’s mounta...

This article describes our efforts to provide ASR resources for Swahili, a Bantu language spoken in a wide area of East Africa. We start with an introduction on the language situation, both at linguistic and digital level. Then, we report the selected strategies to develop a text corpus, a pronunciation dictionary and a speech corpus for this under-resourced language. We explore methodologies a...

KIU is an online bilingual Swahili–Italian dictionary with about 6000 entries aimed primarily at Italian L1 Swahili learners and which has been developed the University of Naples 'L'Orientale'. The project was started in 2003 by M. Toscano collaboration lan­guage experts young researchers until 2009 aim offering lexical resources from to for language. After a long interruption, work resumed 201...

In this paper, we present a study of tonal patterns of Accentual Phrases (APs) in spontaneous speech produced by ten Second Language (L2) speakers of Norwegian. The speakers are multilingual, and their dominant language is either Lingala or Swahili. Analyses of 1000 APs (100 per speaker) show that all the speakers produce the expected lexical pitch accent in a significant majority of the cases....