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The Phonological Influence of Ethnic Community Languages in Learning Kiswahili, a Case of Kinyakyusa in Mbeya, Tanzania

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dc.creator Mtallo, Godson Robert
dc.creator Mwambula, Harid Andrew
dc.date 2018-11-07T05:45:24Z
dc.date 2018-11-07T05:45:24Z
dc.date 2018-07
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-20T08:35:08Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-20T08:35:08Z
dc.identifier Mtallo Godson Robert & Mwambula Harid Andrew (2018),The Phonological Influence of Ethnic Community Languages in Learning Kiswahili, a Case of Kinyakyusa in Mbeya, Tanzania, Journal of Language Teaching and Research, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 702-714
dc.identifier 1798-4769
dc.identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.0904.05
dc.identifier http://dspace.cbe.ac.tz:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/76
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/79312
dc.description It is noted that one language may have an influence in learning the other language. This influence may be vividly seen in different aspects such as phonology, morphosyntax as well as lexis. This paper focuses on investigating how the Ethnic Community Languages, henceforth ECLs, can phonologically influence the learning process of Kiswahili language. Kinyakyusa was taken as a sample to represent other Ecls in Tanzania to see its phonological influence in Learning Kiswahili. The study employed word lists, in depth interview and observations as data collection techniques. The findings revealed that, phonologically, speech sounds that are similar in Kinyakyusa and Kiswahili as a second language such as /p/, /t/, /k/, /f/, /s/ were easily learned. Learners were faced with some difficulties in pronouncing some utterances that are not found in Kinyakyusa but exist in Kiswahili. For instance, voiced alveolar trill sound /r/ was pronounced as voiced alveolar lateral sound /l/, voiceless dental fricative sound /θ/ was pronounced as voiceless alveolar fricative sound /s/.
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dc.language en
dc.publisher Journal of Language Teaching and Research
dc.relation volume 9;1
dc.subject phonology, Kiswahili, Kinyakyusa, Ethnic Community Language (ECL), Tanzania
dc.subject phonology
dc.subject Kiswahili
dc.subject Kinyakyusa
dc.subject Ethnic Community Language (ECL)
dc.subject Tanzania
dc.title The Phonological Influence of Ethnic Community Languages in Learning Kiswahili, a Case of Kinyakyusa in Mbeya, Tanzania
dc.type Article


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