Lettiah Gumbo
Biographic Data
| ID | 9586372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lettiah Gumbo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lettiah |
| FAMILY NAME | Gumbo |
| SIGNATURE | GUMBO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Midlands State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Countering the cumbersome
The inevitability of linguistic change
Europeans brought new concepts, ideas and technologies with them that had not existed before colonialism in Zimbabwe. This led Shona and other indigenous languages (such as Ndebele, Venda, Nambya, Kalanga) to absorb a substantial new vocabulary into their lexicons. Speakers of these languages have been creating terms to cope with the new concepts through various strategies. This article aims at studying the motivation of Shona speakers to prefer …
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The inevitability of linguistic change
Europeans brought new concepts, ideas and technologies with them that had not existed before colonialism in Zimbabwe. This led Shona and other indigenous languages (such as Ndebele, Venda, Nambya, Kalanga) to absorb a substantial new vocabulary into their lexicons. Speakers of these languages have been creating terms to cope with the new concepts through various strategies. This article aims at studying the motivation of Shona speakers to prefer …
Countering the cumbersome
Indigenous (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Shona (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Compounding (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Credence (1 works) · Indigenization (1 works) · Indigenous language (1 works)