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SADiLaR Team: Siswati Researcher
Author: Mieke Hofmeyr Muzi Matfunjwa is the SADiLaR researcher, specialising in the language of Siswati. Other areas of research that interests Mr Matfunjwa includes Digital Humanities, Linguistics and Sociolinguistics. Covid-19 did not come in the way of Mr Matfunjwa and his research and he is currently working on a few different projects. “I am writing…
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The Millennials’ Language
Author: Valencia Wagner (SADiLaR Setswana Researcher) Language is not fixed, it is continuously changing and adapting to reflect the needs of its users. Today’s youth do not speak the same language as their parents. They develop their own unique slang and use it to communicate amongst themselves. Generation by generation, the vocabulary changes, pronunciation evolves…
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TINANATELO TEMASWATI
Author: Muzi Matfunjwa (SADiLaR Siswati Researcher) This blog highlights the importance and functions of clan praises among Swati communities and what they entail. In Swati culture, every clan name/ surname has a clan praise. The clan praises are part of Swati culture and historical norms. Thwala (2018:1) reaffirms that clan praises are predominantly used in…
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SADiLaR Team: isiXhosa Researcher
Author: Mieke Hofmeyr Ms Andiswa Bukula is the isiXhosa Researcher for SADiLaR. As a researcher, she is passionate about her field of research and works towards a better future for the isiXhosa language in a digital learning space. She is currently working on two articles. One with Dr. Roald Eiselen on the use of Named…
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Rihlamari tanihi Xihluvi xa mbulavulo eka Xitsonga/Interjection as part of speech in Xitsonga
Author: Respect Mlambo (SADiLaR Xitsonga Researcher) This blog is written to describe the interjection functions as part of speech in Xitsonga and the notion it expresses. Interjections in Xitsonga, as in other languages, are used to express the present mental state of the speaker. Manghenelo Rihlamari i xihluvi xa mbulavulo lexi kongomisaka eka marito lama…
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Umlando Wezemitlolo Welimi LesiNdebele NgokukaDorh
Author: Nomsa Skosana (isiNdebele Researcher) The literary history of isiNdebele (Skhosana, 2003) The blog trace back to the history of the first few written work in isiNdebele, it also shows the years in which isiNdebele was firstly introduced in schools as the language of teaching and learning in the area that was formerly known as…
