| Project/Area Number |
04610297
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
言語学・音声学
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| Research Institution | TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES |
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Principal Investigator |
KAJI Shigeki TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES, INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF LANGUAGES AND CULTURES OF ASIA AND AFRICA, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 助教授 (10134751)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1992 – 1993
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1993)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
Fiscal Year 1993: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 1992: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
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| Keywords | Bantu / Nande / Vocabulary / BANTU / VOCABULARY / DATABASE |
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| Research Abstract |
Following the Vocabulary of Lingala published in 1993, a vocabulary of Nande was compiled this year with the data obtained through fieldworks in previous years. Nande is a Bantu language (J.42) spoken in the eastern part of Zaire. The compilation procedure is as follows.
First, the data were put in a computer making a text file, i.e.a file composed only of letters available on the keyboard. Then this text file were processed in order to have it printed with normal phonetic symbols, with the help of a printing program prepared independently.
Nande is a farely difficult language to treat with a computer because of its phonetic characters using j(close i) and U(close u) combined with tone marks. One of the merits of using text files is that as such they can be used for computer inquiry.
With examples of Lingala and Nande, the Bantu languages of Africa prove to be easily treated with computers.
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