The development of a large-coverage, computational morphological analyser for Zulu requires the modelling not only of the regular phenomena often associated with word formation, but also the idiosyncratic behaviour that ...

The trends emerging in the natural language processing (NLP) of African languages spoken in South Africa, are explored in order to determine whether research in and development of such NLP is keeping abreast of international ...

Conceptually, finite-state approaches are well suited to the modelling and implementation of regular linguistic (in this case morphophonological) behaviour. However, it is common knowledge that, while morphophonological ...

Northern Sotho and Zulu are two South African Bantu languages that make use of different writing systems, viz. a disjunctive and a conjunctive writing system respectively. In this article it is argued that the different ...

The development of finite-state morphological analyser prototypes for a variety of languages belonging to the Bantu language family, based on underlying machine-readable lexicons that conform to common lexical specifications ...

Traditional healers are essential in traditional and modern African societies, not only because of their special powers to heal the sick and the dying but also because of their link to the spirits of the departed, which ...

The genre 'folktales' is one of the oldest forms of oral tradition which amongst other things, was used to impart and store knowledge from generation to generation. It is very important and is regarded as the wealth and ...

The tendency of foreigners to replace names in ueas they have conquered or those that allegedly appear unoccupied is well known and has featured highly in the history of South Africa. The Makhado-Louis Trichardt renaming ...