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Madiba, Mbulungeni. 2004. Parallel corpora as tools for developing the indigenous languages of South Africa, with special reference to Venda. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 35 (1) : 133–147.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | corpus analysis | translation

Language as a subject

English | Languages, South African | Venda

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper demonstrates how parallel language corpora can be employed as instruments for developing the indigenous South African languages. The paper focuses on translation equivalents in the English-Venda Parallel Corpus, a pilot project aimed at developing specific language corpora for the nine official South African languages.