Orthographic measures of language distances between the official South African languages
Two methods for objectively measuring similarities and dissimilarities between the eleven official languages of South Africa are described. The first concerns the use of n-grams. The confusions between different languages in a text-based language identification system can be used to derive informati...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Afrikaans |
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AOSIS
2008-07-01
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| Series: | Literator |
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| Online Access: | https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/106 |