Mawazoni/KiswahiliModuleNooJ

The Kiswahili module is designed for NooJ linguistic development environment software and corpus processor. It goes with a 45000 words Kiswahili-English dictionary and morphological grammars that detect all tenses of Kiswahili verbs. Mathieu ROY et al. 2017. 2018. CC BY NC SA 3.0 # THE NooJ KISWAHILI MODULE *The NooJ Kiswahili Module is dedicated to the memory of the late mwalimu Jean de Dieu Karangwa (1962-2017), Assistant Professor of Kiswahili at INALCO, Paris, France and my former Kiswahili teacher.* Proper citation may be: Mathieu Roy. Max Silberztein. 2017. NooJ Kiswahili Module V. 1.0: electronic Kiswahili-English dictionary and morphological grammar of Kiswahili for Free Non-Commercial Use. Distributed under Creative Commons Licence: creativecommons.org ## SUMMARY The Kiswahili module is designed for NooJ linguistic development environment software and corpus processor. And it's now online! It goes with a 45000 words Kiswahili-English dictionary and morphological grammars that detect all tenses of Kiswahili verbs. It allows multiple automatic text analysis from various purposes from linguistics research to news watch. Unlike Google translate, the text analysis doesn't provide a single result but shows how the Kiswahili module rules and dictionaries understand the text. You can then export the results for further treatments. Don't hesitate to download it, it works with NooJ software, it's free and distributed under Creative Common License CC BY NC SA 3.0. ## ABOUT THE DICTIONARY Which Kiswahili is it? Kiswahili is generally described as the bantu language G42 in Malcom Guthrie’s classification. But this continentally spread language is diverse from East Africa to Central Africa. Kiswahili ni nyama ya tembo, kila mtu anachumia pake according to Alphonse Lenselaer in the presentation of his Swahili-Français dictionary. It’s a fact that there are many varieties of Kiswahili, to the point that we can seriously talk of Viswahili. Here we have described the Standard Swahili, or Kiswahili sanifu. This is the more widely understood and spoken variety. This is also the written Kiswahili for the medias, law and East African Schools. Finally, it’s the variety used in Dar es Salaam, the economic capital city of T …