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April 4, 20260 citationsOpen Access

ICULD-0018 Siswati: Morphosyntactic Microvariation

KNKhulisile Judith NkunaHGHannah GibsonBNBongane Nyambi

Key Points

  • To document morphosyntactic microvariation in Siswati through recorded language samples.
  • Created a linguistic database with recordings of phrases and sentences in Siswati.
  • Recorded by a single speaker using a Zoom H5 recorder in Thohoyandou, South Africa.
  • Focused on the Siswati variety spoken in the Mpumalanga province.
  • The recordings highlight specific morphosyntactic features of Siswati.
  • Data provides insights into the unique speech patterns of the Siswati language.
  • Demonstrates the linguistic richness and diversity among Siswati speakers.

Abstract

The database ICULD-0018 contains recordings of phrases and sentences of Siswati produced by a single speaker in March 2020.All recordings were made on a Zoom H5 recorder mounted on a tripod in Thohoyandou, Limpopo, South Africa.Sampling rate 44,100 Hz with 16-but quantization.Siswati (S43) is a Bantu language spoken in South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho and Mozambique by about 2.3 million speakers.As one of the official languages of South Africa, the speech in this archive is based on the Siswati variety spoken in the Mpumalanga province. 3.

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Nkuna et al. (2021) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d0adc2659487ece0fa43a4https://doi.org/10.34577/00004815
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