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PDF-Ausgabe des zweibändigen Wörterbuches von Charles Sacleux. Paris 1939-41

Methali ni kipera muhimu cha fasihi simulizi katika kutoa mafunzo kutokana na maudhui yapatikanayo humo. Zimekuwa zikichukuliwa kuwa zina ukweli, hekima na busara kwa jamii husika. Lengo la makala hii ni kuzihakiki methali za Kiswahili ambazo zinahusu ulemavu ili kuelewa mitazamo iliyomo katika methali hizo na athari zake katika jamii. Maswali tunayojibu ni: Je, methali hizo zinabeba mitazamo gani ya jamii? Nini nafasi na athari ya mitazamo hiyo kwa maendeleo endelevu ya watu wenye ulemavu na jamii husika? Data za makala hii zimekusanywa kupitia usomaji wa maandiko mbalimbali maktabani na kufanya mahojiano na wanajamii. Matokeo ya utafiti huu yanaonesha kuwa, methali zimebeba mitazamo hasi na chanya kuhusu ulemavu na watu wenye ulemavu katika jamii. Aidha, methali hizo zinazungumzia mambo yanayohusu si tu ulemavu bali pia zinabeba mitazamo anuwai na falsafa ya Kiafrika kuhusu mambo mbalimbali katika jamii. Vilevile, imebainika kuwa methali hizo zinajenga na kuendeleza unyanyapaa na usaguzi kwa watu wenye ulemavu na hata makundi mengine katika jamii. Makala pia imebaini kuwa pamoja na ukweli kwamba methali zimekuwa chombo muhimu cha kupitishia falsafa na mafunzo mbalimbali kwa maendeleo ya jamii, baadhi ya methali hizo zinapaswa kufanyiwa marekebisho ili kuakisi mabadiliko ya kimtazamo na maendeleo mbalimbali katika wakati wa sasa.

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Advanced Swahili students as well as teachers of Swahili will surely appreciate the new German Swahili - Handbook published recently. This handbook fills a gap in Swahili teaching materials. Thirteen authors, each of them being a specialist in the given Swahili field, have been collectively working on the volume.

There are two matters for us to consider.The first is that of the association of Alhamisi with religious connotations and if that is only specific to Kiswahili language (community); and the second is if the borrowing of Alhamisi is linguistically well motivated even for that purpose. For both these matters, we shall be comparing the Kiswahili calendar with that of its neighbours to determine what we think is a discrepancy, especially, with the Kiswahili borrowing of Alhamisi. We shall discuss the issues above and others in this paper as follows. In the following section we shall, briefly, consider the basis of the formulation of some week calendars.This will be followed by the consideration of the week calendars of a number of languages in East Afiica. Lastly, we shall focus specifically on the Kiswahili week calendar; comparing it with the others and drawing our conclusion.

The aim of this study is to illustrate the state of-the art of technical tools which allow the user to build the lexicon of a Swahili text. Different kinds of statistical information can also be extracted from the text with the aid of tailor made software. The basic operation in building the lexicon of a text is lemmatization, i. e extracting the lemma from the forms contained in the text. Once the lemma list is ready it can be converted into a list of entties, to be filled according to selected criteria.

This paper presents an edited version of a hand written text in Shaba Swahili and French, accompanied by an English translation. The original text was written in ballpoint by a Shaba Zairean ex-houseboy, and sent to his former employer in Belgium It provides an account of his life, with special focus on the period after his Belgian employers left Zaire in 1973. It documents the conditions of hardship in the life of a semi-educated Zairean and provides a detailed account of the migrations he has to undertake in order to find means to support himself and his family. The author Wiote the `recit` at the request of the former employer`s wife, as a symbolic way to repay the debt he had incurred over the years in which he had received money and other goods from the Belgian lady. The text was sent to me by the former employer, who asked me to translate it into Dutch. The former employer granted me the permission to edit and publish the text in its totality. For reasons of privacy, we decided to alter the names of the people mentioned in the text. Thus, for instance, the employer is named Andni Deprins, his wife (who is the central addressee of the text) Helena Arens, and the author of the text is identified as Julien.

This overview paper aims to present general approaches to variation in Swahili, both from a structural/typological and from a sociolinguistic angle. Recently, building upon earlier dialectological studies of Swahili, varieties in the periphery have been the focus of scholarly attention, as well as urban dialects from East Africa and Swahili in the diaspora. This introductory paper intends to summarize some of the approaches and directions that address the geographical and sociolinguistic diversity of Swahili, studied from different angles. These include both traditional approaches (descriptive sketches, dialectological and dialectometrical analyses, lexicostatistics etc.) and more recent directions in Bantu studies, such as micro-parametric analysis in the field of microvariation. Moreover, current (socio)linguistic trends are discussed, which mostly deal with language contact, diversity and change in touristic settings, in relation to new media, and in regard to youth language practices, or with new approaches to urban fluidity such as metrolingualism and translanguaging. In this contribution, we aim to give an overview of current trends in the study of Swahili by analyzing processes of linguistic and scholarly diversification and variation in the Swahili-speaking world.