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Ladefoged, Peter; And Others – 1968
Of the approximately 40 languages in Uganda, some are very similar to one another and may be to some extent mutually intelligible. Because no one knows how to measure degrees of mutual intelligibility, the authors are attempting to establish reliable techniques which would be not only of practical value for the study of language problems in…
Descriptors: African Languages, Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Data Analysis
Farris, Amal – 1975
The purpose of this paper is to present a general overview of the linguistic setting of Arabic. Three main areas are covered. The first of these, diglossia, is defined in general terms and then examined more closely in relation to its historical development in Arabic-speaking countries (i.e., as resulting from geographic, socioeconomic, and…
Descriptors: Arabic, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics