Download or read book South African Language written by Ludie Lichtman and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of this little book is a language book to the sounds of the language. Also, the phrases chosen to be included, are odd - different from the usual phrases one would find in a language book. The only way this book would have any use is to be sat alongside a native speaker of the languages, and ask them what the word should sound like. This beautiful book contains words and phrases in four major South African languages: English, Afrikaans, Xhosa, and Zulu. It is aimed at adults and children. Speaking a few words to a person in his own language improves relationships and builds friendships. The book is aimed at people of all ages who wish to learn a few words or phrases in any of these four languages. The words are arranged under 43 subjects for easy reference. More than 500 color photos of the real objects are included to illustrate words and phrases. It is an extremely useful book for tourists and the first five subjects are included especially for South Africans living overseas.
Download or read book Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa written by Rajend Mesthrie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date, theoretically informed study of male, in-group, street-aligned, youth language practice in various urban centres in Africa.
Download or read book Language in South Africa written by Rajend Mesthrie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging guide to language and society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of wider socio-historical processes; contact between the different language varieties; language and public policy issues associated with post-apartheid society and its eleven official languages.
Download or read book The Grammar of isiXhosa written by JC Oosthuysen and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a life-long language practioner who has spoken isiXhosa since childhood, this grammar represents a significant advance in understanding the structure of isiXhosa, the language of more than 8 million South Africans. In this ground-breaking book isiXhosa is described in its own right, freeing it from preconceived grammatical ideas derived from European languages. All the features of the language are portrayed in this revisionist grammar that reinvents isiXhosa as a language with its own genius. All students of isiXhosa urgently need this book. Both mother-tongue speakers and those studying isiXhosa as a second or third language have to take cognisance of this new approach to escape the restrictions imposed by a Eurocentric bias. It is essential to authors of textbooks and those who prescribe syllabi. It is also of significance for those attempting to gain insight in the structure of related African languages.
Download or read book Kiswahili Msingi Wa Kusema Kusoma Na Kuandika written by Thomas J. Hinnebusch and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive manual intended to teach students the basics of communicating in Swahili at an elementary level. It is designed to teach major communicative skills such as speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Moreover, the text strives to impart fundamental knowledge about East African and Swahili culture.
Download or read book English Afrikaans Xhosa Zulu Guidebook written by Monty Fournier and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of this little book is a language book to the sounds of the language. Also, the phrases chosen to be included, are odd - different from the usual phrases one would find in a language book. The only way this book would have any use is to be sat alongside a native speaker of the languages, and ask them what the word should sound like. This beautiful book contains words and phrases in four major South African languages: English, Afrikaans, Xhosa, and Zulu. It is aimed at adults and children. Speaking a few words to a person in his own language improves relationships and builds friendships. The book is aimed at people of all ages who wish to learn a few words or phrases in any of these four languages. The words are arranged under 43 subjects for easy reference. More than 500 color photos of the real objects are included to illustrate words and phrases. It is an extremely useful book for tourists and the first five subjects are included especially for South Africans living overseas.
Download or read book Corpus Linguistics and World Englishes written by Vivian de Klerk and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph examining English as it is spoken by the Xhosa people in South Africa
Download or read book An Introduction to African Languages written by George Tucker Childs and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces beginning students and non-specialists to the diversity and richness of African languages. In addition to providing a solid background to the study of African languages, the book presents linguistic phenomena not found in European languages. A goal of this book is to stimulate interest in African languages and address the question: What makes African languages so fascinating? The orientation adopted throughout the book is a descriptive one, which seeks to characterize African languages in a relatively succinct and neutral manner, and to make the facts accessible to a wide variety of readers. The author's lengthy acquaintance with the continent and field experiences in western, eastern, and southern Africa allow for both a broad perspective and considerable depth in selected areas. The original examples are often the author's own but also come from other sources and languages not often referenced in the literature. This text also includes a set of sound files illustrating the phenomena under discussion, be they the clicks of Khoisan, talking drums, or the ideophones (words like English lickety-split) found almost everywhere, which will make this book a valuable resource for teacher and student alike.
Download or read book Xhosa Oral Poetry written by Jeff Opland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-12-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1983, was the first detailed study of the Xhosa oral poetry tradition.
Download or read book Xhosa written by Patricia Schonstein and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learning South African Languages written by Kim Brereton Mathiesen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Naming Among the Xhosa of South Africa written by S. J. Neethling and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive monograph on naming in the Xhosa speaking community in South Africa. This work brings together all available scholarly research on Xhosa naming as well as recent research by the author. Onomastics (the study of names, naming, and naming systems) is relatively young in Southern Africa. While the discipline of onomastics was already well established in northern Europe in the late nineteenth century, the study of names and naming only really started to take root in Southern Africa in the second half of the twentieth century. And if onomastics itself is relatively young in Southern Africa, the study of names and naming among the Bantu speaking societies and cultures is younger still. Prior to 1976 one might have found the odd reference to personal names in ethnographic literature, but one would have looked in vain for academic studies on naming patterns among the Zulu, Xhosa, Venda, Tswana, or any of the other 'indigenous' language groupings of Southern Africa. papers being read at the congresses of the Names Society of Southern Africa (NSA), articles being published in the NSA journal Nomina Africana, and students in Departments of African Languages around Southern Africa producing postgraduate research into naming systems of the Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Tswana, and the other indigenous language communities of Southern Africa. For monographs on the naming systems of the indigenous peoples, though, the serious names scholar had to wait until the twenty-first century. My own work, Zulu Names, appeared in 2002, published by the University of Natal Press in Pietermaritzburg, and Minna Saarelma-Maunumaa's Edhina Ekogidho - Names as Links, on the naming system of the Ambo people of Namibia and published by the Finnish Literature Society in Helsinki, was released in 2003. This work by Bertie Neethling on the names of the Xhosa speaking people of South Africa thus completes the trio. Bertie Neethling is well placed to write a book on Xhosa names and naming. Cape, where he has been teaching Xhosa for many years, he has been one of Southern Africa's major contributors to the study of onomastics among the indigenous groups. His interest in Xhosa onomastics and in literary onomastics in both Xhosa and Afrikaans, goes hand-in-hand with his interest in oral literary productions, and he is as well known for his scholarly articles on Xhosa iintsomi (folktales) and Xhosa oral poetry in journals such as The South African Journal of African Languages as he is for his articles on Xhosa onomastics in Nomina Africana. A regular at the biennial congresses of the Names Society of Southern Africa, his face is also well known at the triennial congresses of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS). Naming patterns in all societies are subject to change, and in the turbulent and changing socio-political climate in South Africa since the early 1990s this has been particularly true for Xhosa society. established and traditional Xhosa naming system with developments of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. So for example we find the chapter on the Xhosa speaker's English name looking deeply into the question of whether the colonial name (as many scholars have described this type of name) is still a feature of Xhosa society, or whether it has become a discarded symbol of the old South Africa. The inclusion of chapters on the naming of informal settlements and of minibus taxis also gives this book the feel that it is tackling modern up-to-date onomastic issues, and not just repeating stale ethnographic descriptions of Xhosa naming patterns of yesteryear. The first section of the book and the most extensive one, deals with anthroponymy, and a wide range of different types of anthroponym is covered: the 'real' Xhosa name given at birth, the English name, the surname, nicknames, and names for married women. expecting to find the usual and traditional categories like the names of towns and villages, and other well known geographical names like those for rivers and mountains, may well be surprised. Neethling has decided to discuss place names mainly in an urbanised context and hence the section on toponyms in this book deals with the names of schools, businesses and informal settlements. The book ends with a chapter each on minibus taxi names, and the traditional names of the months of the year, where an intriguing comparison is made with the lunar nomenclature of the Sioux people of North America. I am sure that this book will very soon find a place on the bookshelf of every serious names scholar and student in South Africa and beyond, as well as proving fascinating to people generally interested in the customs and traditions of the Xhosa speaking people.
Download or read book The Teaching and Learning of Xhosa as a Foreign Language in South African Schools and Universities with Special Reference to Efforts Being Made to Speak Read and Write the Language written by C. Z. Gebeda and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Languages We Speak written by Samuel Doggie Ngcongwane and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Apartheid Context of African Language Studies written by Sizwe Satyo and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Language Vitality in South Africa written by Anika Kehl and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,3, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Hauptseminar: English in Contact, language: English, abstract: There are 24 languages which are regularly used by more than 44.8 million South Africans and almost 80 % of the South African population use one of the African languages at home. “The most commonly spoken home language is isiZulu, which is spoken by 23.8 % of the population, followed by isiXhosa (17.6 %) and Afrikaans (13.3 %)” Although English is the home language of only 8.2 % of the South African population it is still used as a lingua franca throughout the nation. The eleven official languages are used by 99% of the country’s population and those languages are all supposed to have equal rights. Belonging to these languages are English and Afrikaans, and nine other African languages: “Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, isiNdebele, isiXhosa, and isiZulu”. There are also many other languages spoken in South Africa like for example Arabic, German, Greek, Hindi, Tamil, Hebrew and many more. Some European languages like French, German, and Portuguese are used in South Africa but they are not nearly as influential as English. The historical development of South Africa has brought the question of language forward. The country became aware of its unique language situation and the chances and problems which are connected to it. After Mandela many people developed a greater interest in smaller languages. The paper is going to explore the language vitality of some of the 11 official South African languages, dealing with the problem of language endangerment/death and language reviltalisation. It is going to be seen whether the multilingualism which is propagandized by the government is or can be realised in real life. Due to the lack of valid information for many of the smaller indigenous Afrcian langugeas the paper will mostly look at the situation of Afrikaans and English, only rarely concidering the other languages in much detail.
Download or read book Xhosa for the Classroom written by Tessa Dowling and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
