A Comparison of Approaches to Word Class Tagging: Disjunctively vs. Conjunctively Written Bantu Languages

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 orthographic systems obscure the morphological similarities and that these syst...

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Main Authors: Elsabé Taljard, Sonja E. Bosch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nordic Africa Research Network 2006-12-01
Series:Nordic Journal of African Studies
Online Access:https://www.njas.fi/njas/article/view/37