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Xhosa, Isixhosa (S41)

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Distribution of Xhosa

Online communities, weblogs, mailinglists, newsgroups back to top »

Google in Xhosa.
www.google.com/intl/xh

Wikipedia in Xhosa.
xh.wikipedia.org

Dictionaries, word lists, phrase lists back to top »

Albert Kropf, 1899
A Kaffir-English dictionary (PDF). Lovedale Mission Press.
www.archive.org/details/kafirenglishdict00kroprich

Martha O'Kennon, David Barber
Xhosa on the web (English to Xhosa and Xhosa to English translations).
mokennon.albion.edu

Philip M. Parker
Xhosa English dictionary.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/Xhosa-english

Grammar books, learners' materials back to top »

John Whittle Appleyard, 1850
The Kafir language (PDF). Wesleyan Methodist Mission Press.
books.google.com/books?id=mssNAAAAQAAJ

William B. Boyce, 1844
Grammar of the Kafir language (PDF). Second edition. Wesleyan Methodist Mission Press.
books.google.com/books?id=Sy4OAAAAIAAJ

Sabelo Ndabazandile
Isifundo zesiXhosa - learn Xhosa and know something about South Africa.
members.tripod.com/Sabelo/isiXhosa.htm

Lexicon studies, dictionary-making, etc. back to top »

Isixhosa National Lexicography Unit (XNLU). University of Fort Hare.
www.ufh.ac.za/centres/xhosa.htm

Pronunciation, phonetics, phonology back to top »

Farida Cassimjee, Charles W. Kisseberth, 1997
Optimal Domains Theory and Bantu tonology: a case study from Isixhosa and Shingazidja (PDF). Rutgers Optimal Archive ROA-176.
roa.rutgers.edu/index.php3?id=188

Laura J. Downing, 2003
Stress, tone and focus in Chichewa and Xhosa (PDF). Frankfurter afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere, v. 15, p. 59-81.
www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/home/downing/FAB2003ljd.pdf

Keith Johnson, 1993
Acoustic and auditory analyses of Xhosa clicks and pulmonics (PDF). UCLA working papers in phonetics, v. 83, p. 33-45.
repositories.cdlib.org/uclaling/wpp/No83/

John Kelly, 1992
Xhosa isinkalakahliso again (PDF). From: York papers in linguistics, v. 16, p. 19-35.
eric.ed.gov (ED350839)

Peter Ladefoged
Vowels and consonants: Xhosa (clicks). Sound files hosted at the UCLA Phonetics Lab.
hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/index/language.html

Philip Lewis
The acquisition of clicks by non-mother-tongue speakers (PDF).
eric.ed.gov (ED369285)

Kholisa Podile, 2002
The dependency relations within Xhosa phonological processes (PDF). MA thesis. University of South Africa (UNISA).
etd.unisa.ac.za/ETD-db/ETD-desc/describe?urn=etd-02212007-113803

Bonny Sands, 1990
Some of the acoustic characteristics of Xhosa clicks (PDF). UCLA working papers in phonetics, v. 74, p. 96-103.
repositories.cdlib.org/uclaling/wpp/No74/

Bonny Sands, 1991
Evidence for click features: acoustic characteristics of Xhosa clicks (PDF). UCLA working papers in phonetics, v. 80, p. 6-37.
repositories.cdlib.org/uclaling/wpp/No80/

Sabine Zerbian, 2004
Phonological phrases in Xhosa (PDF). ZAS (Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft) papers in linguistics, v. 27, p. 71-99.
www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/papers/zaspil/articles/zp37/zp37-zerbian.pdf

Studies of grammar, syntax, morphology back to top »

Carol Bonnin Hobson, 2000
Morphological development in the interlanguage of English learners of Xhosa (PDF). PhD thesis. Rhodes University.
eprints.ru.ac.za/745

Miscellaneous, unsorted back to top »

Knobel Sakhiwo Bongela, 2002
Isihlonipho among Amaxhosa (PDF). DLitt et Phil thesis. University of South Africa.
etd.unisa.ac.za/ETD-db/ETD-desc/describe?urn=etd-03072007-151622

Daryl Braam, 2004
Community perception of change in a school's language policy (PDF). PRAESA (Project for Alternative Education in South Africa) occasional papers, n. 21. University of Cape Town.

Lorenzo Dalvit, 2004
Attitudes of isiXhosa-speaking students at the University of Fort Hare towards the use of isiXhosa as a language of learning and teaching (PDF). MA thesis. Rhodes University.
eprints.ru.ac.za/16

Lorenzo Dalvit, Vivian de Klerk, 2005
Attitudes of Xhosa-speaking students at the University of Fort Hare towards the use of Xhosa as a language of learning and teaching (PDF). From: Southern African linguistics and applied language studies, v. 23, p. 1-18.
eprints.ru.ac.za/731

Charlyn Dyers, 2000
Language, identity and nationhood: language use and attitudes among Xhosa students at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa (PDF). DLit thesis. University of the Western Cape.
etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=init_7528_1174569150

Eunice Nolungisa Gqwede, 2005
A pragmatic analysis of persuasion in isiXhosa (PDF). MA thesis. University of Stellenbosch.
hdl.handle.net/10019/197

Nobuhle Beauty Luphondo, 2006
The accessibility of printed news to first language speakers of Xhosa (PDF). MA thesis. Dept. of Linguistics, Language and Communication, University of the Western Cape.
etd.uwc.ac.za

Nomfundo Mali-Jali, 2007
A genre-based approach to writing across the curriculum in Isixhosa in the Cape Peninsula schools (PDF). DLitt thesis. University of Stellenbosch.
hdl.handle.net/10019/673

Thabile Mbatha, Peter Plüddemann, 2004
The status of isiXhosa as an additional language in selected Cape Town secondary schools (PDF). PRAESA (Project for Alternative Education in South Africa) occasional papers, n. 18. University of Cape Town.

Michellé October, 2002
Medium of instruction and its effect on matriculation examination results for 2000, in Western Cape secondary schools: a study of examination results in relation to home language and language medium (PDF). PRAESA (Project for Alternative Education in South Africa) occasional papers, n. 11. University of Cape Town.
web.uct.ac.za/depts/praesa/OP.htm

Peter Plüddemann, Daryl Braam, Peter Broeder, Guus Extra, Michellé October, 2004
Language policy implementation and language vitality in Western Cape primary schools (PDF). PRAESA (Project for Alternative Education in South Africa) occasional papers, n. 15. University of Cape Town.
web.uct.ac.za/depts/praesa/OP.htm

Peter Plüddemann, Daryl Braam, Michellé October, Zola Wababa, 2004
Dual-medium and parallel-medium schooling in the Western Cape: from default to design (PDF). PRAESA (Project for Alternative Education in South Africa) occasional papers, n. 17. University of Cape Town.
web.uct.ac.za/depts/praesa/OP.htm

Bhekithemba Doctor Simelane, 2005
Indigenous knowledge and vegetation utilisation in Khayelitsha, Cape Town (PDF). MA thesis. University of the Western Cape.
etd.uwc.ac.za

Georg McCall Theal, 1886
Kaffir (Xhosa) folk-lore. Originally published by Swan Sonnenschein in London. Webbaccess by the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
www.sacred-texts.com/afr/xft/index.htm

Anneleen van der Veken, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, 2003
Les langues africaines sur la Toile: étude des cas haoussa, somali, lingala, et isixhosa (PDF). Cahiers du Rifal, v. 23, p. 33-45.
tshwanedje.com/publications

Rima Vesely, 2000
Multilingual environments for survival: the impact of English on Xhosa-speaking students in Cape Town (PDF). PRAESA (Project for Alternative Education in South Africa) occasional papers, n. 5. University of Cape Town.
web.uct.ac.za/depts/praesa/OP.htm


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