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Foluke Olayinka Unuabonah; Mampoi Irene Mabena – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
This article offers a descriptive account of seven interjections, "eish", "yho", "tjo", "sho", "hayi", "hau", and "mxm", which are adopted from different local South African languages into South African English. It investigates the frequencies, orthography, syntactic position,…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Syntax, Pragmatics, English
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Kuralay Kuderinova; Anar Fazylzhanova; Yermukhamet Maralbek; Marzhan Serikqyzy; Samal Beisenkhan – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
This article compares the traditional and modern "speech production" patterns of the Kazakh language. By identifying the advantages of traditional speech structuring, the study proposes mechanisms for revitalizing modern Kazakh speech production, which is becoming increasingly simplified and distanced from its cognitive-aesthetic power…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Turkic Languages, Speech Communication, Oral Language
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Zh. K. Tuimebayev – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
Among the Altaic languages, Turkic and Mongolian have a lot of similarities due to their prolonged contact and a common lineage. The two languages share several parallels in vocabulary, sound correspondence, phonotactic rules, and grammar. This study aimed to explore the comparative-historical aspects of Turkic-Mongolian language parallels in…
Descriptors: Languages, Turkic Languages, Contrastive Linguistics, Grammar