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The morpho-sociolinguistic aspect of the morpheme /-ng∼-eng/ in Sesotho South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Litsepiso Matlosa, ‘Masehloho ‘Matjotjo, Thuso Selebeli
This is a morpho-sociolinguistic article that adopts a qualitative approach to investigate the attachment of the morpheme /-ng∼-eng/ to Sesotho parts of speech and to determine the validity of the ...
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Editorial South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Editor-in-Chief Gibson Ncube
Published in South African Journal of African Languages (Vol. 44, No. 2, 2024)
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Approaches to interpreting emojis as evidence in South African courts: a forensic linguistic perspective South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Zakeera Docrat, Russell H Kaschula
This article highlights the importance of emojis as evidence in courts of law. The article outlines the history of emojis from a global perspective, and how they have come to be used as a form of i...
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A discursive construction of self in selected songs by Azeez Fashola (aka Naira Marley) South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Temidayo Akinrinlola, Raifu Olanrewaju Farinde
Studies on Azeez Fashola (aka Naira Marley) have only made passing comments on his personality. Most of the comments present negative perceptions about the personality of Naira Marley (NM). Such ne...
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Tshivenḓa death-related names as a communicative act: an ethnopragmatic study from Vhembe District in Limpopo province, South Africa South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Thilivhali Mukosi, Itani Peter Mandende, Mashudu C Mashige
This article interrogates Tshivenḓa death-related names against the communication acts they encapsulate among Vhavenḓa society in the Vhembe District. Anthroponym scholars agree that personal namin...
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The role of isiZulu communal notifications in sustaining the community-orientated lifestyle South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Mzuyabonga Gumede
The dissemination of communal notifications across the proximally distant homesteads in a rural area is not an easy practice. Against this backdrop, this study investigates the forms of communal no...
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Perceptions about the development of Black South African languages for use in basic education in South Africa South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Lefty Mabela, Thabo Ditsele
The development of Black South African languages (BSALs) has been a subject of discussion for indigenous languages activists. This development was deemed necessary in basic education, hence our res...
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An evaluation of PanSALB’s progress in monitoring and managing language rights violations in South Africa South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Aaron Mabasa, Mtholeni N Ngcobo
This article evaluates the extent to which the Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB) managed to monitor and dealt with language rights violation complaints. The board’s role is to implement th...
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Gender assignment in Datooga nouns South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Kuria Michael Mdoe
This study describes gender assignment in Datooga nouns. The article shows that gender is linguistically expressed in Datooga nouns. Noun gender in Datooga is a non-agreeing one depicted as both ov...
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Indigenous African language media: practices and processes South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Kealeboga Aiseng
Published in South African Journal of African Languages (Vol. 44, No. 2, 2024)
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A postcolonial structuralist critique of Yolisa Madolo’s Ndinetyala kusini na? (Am I guilty?) South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Mlamli Diko
Yolisa Madolo’s Ndinetyala kusini na? (‘Am I guilty?’) proves the notion that isiXhosa short stories could be viewed as making sociopolitical commentary on pertinent subjects such as natural creati...
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Uphicothonzulu lweentsingiselo zegama elithi ‘kaffir ‘ kusetyenziswa inkcazobungcali yobuhlanga South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Mlamli Diko
Kukho ingcinga ephosayo, neyalatha ukuba amagama ocalucalulo nathoba isidima sabaNtsundu kwimeko yoMzantsi Afrika omtsha, anokuqondwa ngeenkcazobungcali zesimantiki nepragmatiki kuphela. Loo nto ye...
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Mqhayi’s UDon Jadu as a contribution to the ‘Native Republic Policy’ discourse South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Godfrey Vulindlela Mona
The central argument of this article is that Mqhayi’s utopian prose, UDon Jadu, reveals that the ‘independent native republic’ discourse that was dominant in the African National Congress and South...
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Problems encountered in the translation of Tshivenḓa into English: a case of musanda language terminologies and expressions South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Mutshinyani Mercy Mahwasane
Translators encounter challenges when translating terminologies and expressions of the musanda royal language from Tshivenḓa into English. For this reason, it is important to investigate the obstac...
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‘Andifuni madyakophu apha!’ Uphicotho lwepolitiki nocalucalulo ngeendlela ezinoburharha, ukhwenkco, nezigqebhelo, kwinoveli kaZotwana Imijelo yegazi South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Simthembile Xeketwana
Iinjongo zombhali ziba liqela kuze kuthi kulowo ufundayo kubekho uxanduva lokutolika nokuhlalutya oko kubhaliweyo. UZotwana kwincwadi yakhe yenoveli ethi, Imijelo yegazi usibalisela ibali, kuze kut...
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Vowel hiatus resolution strategies in the Lungu, Mambwe and Namwanga languages: a micro-variation analysis South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Pethias Siame, Felix Banda
Guthrie classifies Lungu as M14, Mambwe as M15 and Namwanga as M22. Lungu, Mambwe and Namwanga (LuMaNa) have been characterised as emanating from a language called Fipa. The purpose of this article...
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The properties of adverbs and adverbial expressions in Runyambo South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Lea Mpobela, Amani Lusekelo
This article identifies and classifies adverbs in Runyambo, a Bantu language spoken in north-west Tanzania. Runyambo is classified as E21. This article aims at discussing the morphology, syntax and...
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A historical analysis of tense-aspect variations in Malawian CiTonga (N15) South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Winfred Mkochi
This article presents cases of tense-aspect variations in Malawian CiTonga and traces the historical processes of change that have led to the different realisations of tense-aspect grammatical unit...
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Retorts in Igbo discourse South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 KelvinFrancis Olisaemeka Obitube, Sopuruchi Christian Aboh, Chimezirim Iheoma Ucheoma
This article studies the social factors influencing the use of retorts in Igbo discourse and how these factors determine the psychological impact of retorts. By adopting a cross-sectional survey de...
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The right to an interpreter in the Zimbabwean health care system: an appraisal South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Eventhough Ndlovu
The right to an interpreter in the health care sector is an indispensable right, especially given that issues in this sector have a bearing on life and death if language becomes a barrier to diagno...
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The exploration of syntactic links: subject-verb agreement defilement in Sesotho South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Madira Thetso
The article explores the violation of grammatical agreement in Sesotho. Grammatical agreement is a significant characteristic in sentence construction. There should be covariance relations between ...
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Manuel de conversation, Français–Zoulou et Zoulou–Français; Isichayamagama sesiZulu kuya kwisiFulentshi/lexique Français–Zoulou South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Gibson Ncube
Published in South African Journal of African Languages (Vol. 44, No. 1, 2024)
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Ukuphuhliselwa ezobuNgcali kweeLwimi zaseAfrika: isiXhosa njengolwimi lokuphanda South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Lukhanyo Elvis Makhenyane
The interest of researchers in African languages is inclined towards the intellectualisation of African languages. Research reveals African languages’ capacity to be used as languages for teaching ...
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Hip Hop Pantsula making Setswana fashionable: impact on Setswana orthography South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Kgomotso Mothokhumo Ambitious Theledi
The aim of this article is to investigate how South African hip-hop lyrics break language rules and promote South African indigenous languages. The article focuses on youth participation in linguis...
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Revisiting isiZulu noun classes: a lexicalist approach South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Nhlanhla Mathonsi, Ernestina Maleshoane Rapeane-Mathonsi
This article seeks to question the lexical integrity (lexicality) of isiZulu noun classes. A noun is a lexical category, hence it would be expected that a noun classifier be a lexical or derivation...
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Political euphemisms in Tshivenḓa: a sociopragmatic analysis South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Mmbulaheni Lawrence Mudau
This article explores various political euphemisms in Tshivenḓa that politicians deploy in daily social interactions. Politicians use political euphemisms strategically to control the flow of infor...
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Identifying and naming number digits in Setswana South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Naledi N Kgolo-Lotshwao, Thapelo J Otlogetswe
This study experimentally tested how well Setswana native speakers know numbers in their language, and whether they can articulate numbers of varying complexities in Setswana. To this end, we prese...
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The emergence of praise-poetry recitation in the Ịjọ community South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Imomotimi Armstrong
This article focuses on the emergence of praise-poetry recitation among the Ịjọ of Nigeria’s Niger Delta region. It argues that until the contemporary period, the Ịjọ had no such poetic form. The a...
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An investigation of the language attitudes, identity and power perspectives of isiZulu home-language-speaking students towards isiZulu and other Black South African languages South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Mashadi Masha-Sambo, Tilla Olifant, Mzwamadoda Phillip Cekiso, Thabo Ditsele
IsiZulu is the most widely spoken language in South Africa, and most of its home language (HL) speakers reside in KwaZulu-Natal. Outside this province, there are significant isiZulu HL speakers who...
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Understanding character naming in Khaketla’s Mosali a Nkhola: a literary onomastic analysis South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Sol Chaphole, Madira Thetso
This article aims to understand Khaketla’s intent in naming the characters in Mosali a Nkhola. As one of its key features, a novel has characters whose main purpose is to carry readers through the ...
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Responding to xenophobic violence in South Africa: identity negotiation and language practices of Nigerian immigrants in Cape Town and Johannesburg South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Chimaobi Onwukwe
This study reflects on language use and identity navigation in the context of xenophobia. It specifically examines language practices by Nigerian Igbo immigrants as they relate to negotiating socia...
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The adoption and proliferation of clicks in Bantu languages: the role of hlonipha revisited South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Hilde Gunnink
While the use of clicks in certain Southern Bantu languages is recognisable as the result of contact with speakers of Khoisan languages, the occurrence of clicks in inherited Bantu lexemes defies a...
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Historical evolution of the -ile suffix and language genetic relationship in the Nyasa-Tanganyika Corridor South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Nichodamus Robinson
This article examines the extent to which the changing morphological and phonological properties of the -ile suffix illuminates change in the genetic language relationships among four languages in ...
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The role of narrative stories in interpreting male dominance: Ndilunge ngoku ndingumabuy’ ekwendeni! (I’m better off as a divorcée!) South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Sebolelo Mokapela, Russell Kaschula
This article focuses on how some women in a patriarchal and culture-bound community, after enduring different forms of abuse, decide to leave their husbands. This phenomenon is also reflected in is...
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The potential of artificial intelligence (AI) for decolonising education in South Africa through the development of indigenous languages South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Burgert Senekal, Susan Brokensha
Despite having 12 officially recognised languages (with the addition of South African Sign Language on 3 May 2023), South Africa’s education system is becoming increasingly monolingual. The current...
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The challenges of translation in multilingual South Africa with specific reference to selected public space signage in the Western Cape province South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Sebolelo Mokapela
This article seeks to raise awareness of the impact – positive and negative – of practices that are perceived to be contributing towards the realisation of multilingualism in South Africa. The 1996...
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The use of proverbs and metaphors in isiXhosa football reporting South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Enongene Mirabeau Sone, Nangamso Gubelana, Neliswa Nkosiyane
This article explores the different uses of colourful and military language in the commentaries of isiXhosa football reporters, and highlights an interesting relationship between football and war i...
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The syntax and morphosyntax of questions in Shinyiha South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Devet Goodness
This article examines the syntax and morphosyntax of questions in the Shinyiha language. It surveys the different sentence structures and strategies Shinyiha speakers use in forming questions. It p...
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The effect of phonetic harmony in causative morphemes in Kiswahili South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Hossam Mohamed Ramadan
This article focuses on the causative morpheme in Kiswahili. It notes that the causative morpheme has many allomorphs. The study explains the relationship between the verb root and the causative fo...
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Language ideologies in the promotion of English in Uganda’s educational system: a historical overview from the 1890s to 2007 South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Medadi E Ssentanda, Ruth S Wenske
This article is a historical investigation of language-in-education policy in Uganda. It compares educational reports from the 1890s to the 2000s with research from cultural history to trace how la...
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Nyalano ya matseno le bokhutlo jwa khutshwe Magana go utlwa jaaka dithapo tsa leselo South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Richard Lepheti Moloele
Khutshwe ke mofutakwalwa o o seng bonolo go kwalwa. Bakwalakhutshwe ba le bantsi ba a atlafa fa ba leka go o kwala. Ditlhangwa tse dintsi tsa dikhutshwe di kwadilwe ka mokgwa o o sa useng pelo. Bot...
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A descriptive analysis of Xitsonga contemporary music South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Nyikelani Davis Mabasa
Indigenous music and dance can help one to vividly fathom the behaviour, values and morals of particular cultural groups, who perform its music and dance for various reasons. The indigenous music a...
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The impact of non-standard varieties of isiZulu language learning on students’ performance at a university of technology in Gauteng South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Zempilo S Gumede, Yanga LP Majola, Nontobeko T Mbatha
The impact of non-standard varieties of isiZulu language learning on students’ performance at a university of technology (UoT) in Gauteng incorporates the investigation of the positive and negative...
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Incazelo nomlando oqukethwe emagameni aqanjwe abesifazane abashade ngaphambi konyaka we-1990 esigodini sakaGcaliphiwe eMaphephetheni South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Sabelo Zamani Msomi, Nobuhle Ndimande-Hlongwa
Leli phepha lihlola ukuqanjwa kwamagama abantu besifazane abashadile ngenhloso yokuthola umlando nencazelo. Ezikhathini eziphambili bekuwumkhuba ojwayelekile ukuthi umuntu wesifazane uma ezogana af...
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The names of the supreme being in Bemba: some critical morphological insights South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Hambaba Jimaima, Susan Matukuto, Gabriel Simungala
In this article, we use lexical morphology to account for names of the supreme being in Bemba, a Bantu language spoken in Zambia as rendered by various translators in the Christian holy book, the B...
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Enhancing the vocabulary inventory of Xitsonga in the academic domain by importing from initiation schools and traditional health practice South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Mafemani Joseph Baloyi
The article aims to discover how university students and their lecturers can contribute to the valuing of Xitsonga as one of the South African indigenous languages in the academic domain. It focuse...
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Proverbs based on the people domain in David Mkhize’s Ngavele ngasho South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Zilibele Mtumane, Rachel Tengetile Antones-Dlamini
The article seeks to provide a critical analysis of selected proverbs based on the people domain in the isiZulu drama, Ngavele ngasho (‘I told you so’), by David Mkhize. The proverbs are sampled pu...
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Malawian and Nigerian migrants’ perceptions of the isiZulu interlocutors’ values and the effects on their willingness to acquire isiZulu South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Shoaib Mzoma
This article explores Malawian and Nigerian migrants’ perceptions of their isiZulu interlocutors’ values in Johannesburg. The aim was to determine the effects of such perceptions on the migrants’ w...
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Exposing impropriety and the degeneration of ubuntu through satire in selected isiZulu poems South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Isaac Mndawe
This article examines the skill employed by poets in creating satirical isiZulu poems and the extent to which these satirical elements have been used in exposing indecent and immoral acts that reve...
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The impact of poor reading skills on Grade 12 isiXhosa Home Language exam results South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Pumla Cutalele-Maqhude
IsiXhosa is one of the 11 official languages offered as a subject in the South African school curriculum at Home Language (HL) level. The examination of this subject in grade 12 (the school-exit ye...
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Ukushayisana kwesiko nemfundo enovelini ethi lmpi yabomdabu isethunjini South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Melusi Msomi
Leli phepha lihlaziya ukushayisana phakathi kwesiko nemfundo okwenzeka enovelini ethi: lmpi yabomdabu isethunjini ebhalwe ngu JC Buthelezi ngowezi-2015. Kule noveli kubonakala sengathi kukhona ukun...
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Advanced tongue root effect in Igbo affixation: perspectives from Èwùlù South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Don Chukwuemeka Utulu
Èwùlù (Igboid: West Benue–Congo, southern Nigeria) is a type 2IU dialect with a rather pervasive advanced tongue root (ATR) effect in its productive affixation morphology. Consequently, all vowels ...
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Ubugqirha: healing beyond the Western gaze South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Zethu Cakata
This article explores what African languages teach us about the concept of healing using the Xhosa language (isiXhosa) of South Africa as a model. From an African perspective, the names used to lab...
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Expressions from Zulu proverbs on the uniqueness of motherhood in mitigating the adverse effects of orphanhood South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Mfundo Mandla Masuku, Nomusa M Mlondo, Tholakele Henrietta Chiliza
Proverbs are labelled as the expression of messages embedded in a language. This article analyses a selected proverb which reflects on motherhood and orphanhood and which is used to show the value ...
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COVID-19 crisis communication in Sepedi: the quality of translation by the Limpopo Department of Health South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Napjadi Letsoalo, Tshepho Justice Kgasago
There is a paucity of literature on the importance of translating health risk messages into South Africa’s indigenous languages as a tool for crisis prevention and management. This article focuses ...
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The categorisation of questions in the assessment of language subjects for multilingual learners in South African primary schools South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Nonhlanhla Ntuli, Ramona Kunene Nicolas
This study examines the structure and cognitive demands of questions found in Grade 5 learners’ English first additional language (FAL) and isiZulu home language (HL) subject workbooks. Using docum...
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Personal names and naming theoretical concepts in selected texts of Yvonne Vera and Petina Gappah South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Tendai Mangena
This article analyses the ways in which two internationally renowned Zimbabwean women writers, Yvonne Vera and Petina Gappah, show a fascination with names in their novels, and in the process call ...
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Lexical change: a case of the Hehe language South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Ernest Mapunda, Chrispina Alphonce
The article reports the results on the lexical change in Hehe, grounded in substratum theory. This exploration focused on the extent of lexical change. The qualitative data were collected in Kilolo...
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Gender stereotyping in Indlela yababi and Kuxolelwa abanjani?: a corpus linguistics approach South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Lungile Mncwango, Jacomien van Niekerk, Elsabé Taljard
In this article, we use corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to examine gender stereotyping in three isiZulu novels, namely Indlela yababi (‘The path of the wicked’) by RRR Dhlomo, In...
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Future-time markers in expressing English future time by Sesotho L1 speakers South African Journal of African Languages (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 'Matšitso Eugenia Morato-Maleke, Francina Liako Moloi
The expression of future time in the English language seems to lack uniformity. The lack of consistency is influenced by speakers’ intentions, so these various ways of marking future time in Englis...