Any nation using its own language as the national language has to consider herself as a nation of self confidence and identity. Tanzania with a population of more than 40 million people is proud of using its natural language Kiswahili in the daily communications. However, Kiswahili is not present in the potential and promising sector of the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). ...

This paper describes an investigation into the selection and use of media in teaching Kiswahili Language in secondary schools in Emuhaya, Kakamega County in Kenya. The study was based on a descriptive survey design. The area of study was Emuhaya district, in Kakamega county Kenya. The study population consisted of 22 head teachers, 1333 students and 43 Kiswahili teachers. Saturated sampling was...

BACKGROUND The spontaneous and narrative language of Kiswahili agrammatic aphasic and non-brain-damaged speakers was analysed. The bilingual participants were also tested in English to enable comparisons of verb production in the two languages. The significance of this study was to characterise bilingual Kiswahili-English spontaneous agrammatic output. This was done by describing Kiswahili-Engl...

the existing literature on bantu verbal semantics demonstrated that inherent semantic content of verbs pairs directly with the selection of tense, aspect and modality formatives in bantu languages like chasu, lucazi, lusamia, and shiyeyi. thus, the gist of this paper is the articulation of semantic classification of verbs in kiswahili based on the selection of tam types. this is because the sem...

English and Kiswahili are the two key languages in Kenya. While Kiswahili is a national language, English is an official language and is actually the medium of instruction in Kenyan schools. The model of English used in Kenyan schools, even at the primary tier is claimed to be the British standard, particularly Received Pronunciation (RP) (Zuengler, 1982; Schmied, 1990, 1991; Kanyoro, 1991; Kio...

Makala haya yamedadavua mchango wa mofofonolojia ya Kiduruma kwa ujifunzaji sarufi Kiswahili katika shule za msingi kaunti Kwale nchini Kenya. Nadharia Fonolojia Zalishi Asilia iliyoasisiwa na Joan Hooper (1971) iliongoza utafiti. Mkabala kithamano muundo kiethinografia ulitumiwa uchunguzi. Data ilikusanywa kutokana insha wanafunzi kutumia mwongozo uchanganuzi yaliyomo. Matokeo yalionesha kuwa ...

This paper discusses how a concatenative Kiswahili Text to Speech System (TTS) was developed based on the Festival Unit Selection Speech Synthesiser. It explains how important Kiswahili linguistic features such as phones, stress and intonation were modelled as inputs to the Festival engine. It also discusses the design, recording and segmentation of the speech database, beginning with text corp...

The need for a suitable tool for assessing postpartum depression in Kenya led to the process of translation of the 10 items Edinburgh Postnatal Scale into Kiswahili. The idea was to seek semantic, conceptual as well as normative equivalence in this translation. The paper discusses issues and the process of translation and provides in depth discussions around translation from the point of view o...

This study is an analysis of lexical borrowing nominals in Sabaot from Kiswahili. The two languages under differ each other significant ways. Kiswahili, for example, a language the Niger-Congo family classified by Ethnologue as ISO 639-3: SWA, while on hand, belongs to Southern Nilotic group that occupies Mount Elgon area. research was guided specific objective; investigate spoken young, middle...