CHIRONGWA CHEALLEX

The ALLEX Project

ALLEX is an acronym for the African Languages Lexical Project

The aim of ALLEX

ˇ Kuti vanhu vemuZimbabwe vave nemaduramazwi (madhikishinari) nezvimwevo zvinyorwa zvinobatsira kukurudzira kushandiswa kwemitauro yezvizvarwa zvemuno munyika.

to provide the population of Zimbabwe with dictionaries and other language tools for the African languages used in the country.

ˇ Kudzidzisa nyanzvi dzezvemitauro dzenyika yeZimbabwe dziri payunivhesiti yeZimbabwe kuti dzive neruzivo rwemanyorewo anoitwa maduramazwi uye ruzivo rwezvemarongerwo emashandisirwo angaitwa mitauro munyika.

to train Zimbabwean linguists at the University of Zimbabwe as lexicographers and practical language planners

ˇ Kugadzira hwaro hwekuti payunivhesiti yeZimbabwe patangwe muzinda vezvidzidzo zvekunyorwa kwamaduramazwi uye zvidzidzo zvekurongwa kwemashandisirwo emitauro munyika dziri kuchamhembe kweAfrica.

to lay the foundation for a centre for lexicography and language planning for the native languages of Southern Africa, placed at the University of Zimbabwe

to improve research opportunities in lexicography, African languages and linguistics generally at all participating universities

ALLEX Project Organization

The ALLEX Project is a joint cooperative project between the Universities of Oslo and Zimbabwe, organized and financed under the NUFU agreement (Project nr 28/96). The University of Gothenburg has also participated in the ALLEX Project from the start in 1992. As in all NUFU projects, the concept is that ALLEX should be a development project between equal partners, all of whom benefit from the co-operation.

Nhengo DzeALLEX

The partners in the ALLEX Project

ˇ Bazi reScandinarvian Studies and Comparative Literature reyunivhesiti yeOslo kuNorway uyewo chirongwa cheNorwegian Documentation Project.

Department of Scandinavian Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Oslo, Norway (with partisipation from The Norwegian Documentation Project)

ˇ Bazi reAfrican Languages and Literature repayunivhesiti yeZimbabwe.

Department of African Languages and Literature, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

Department of Swedish, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Time Schedule

The ALLEX Project was planned as a project in four phases, each of which would result in publication of one or more monolingual dictionaries:

ˇ Chikamu chekutanga chaivako kubva muna1992 kusvika 1995

Phase 1 1992 - 1995

Chakaburitsa Duramazwi reChiShona.

General Shona Dictionary: Duramazwi reChiShona

Corpus of spoken Shona (ca 1.2 mill words)

Chikamu Chechipiri Chakatanga 1996 chichizopera muna 2000

Phase 2 1996 - 1999 (running into year 2000)

Chinotarisirwa kubuditsa Duramazwi reChiNdevere

General Ndebele Dictionary

Chikamu ichi chiri kuumba denhe ramashoko ramashoko rinenge riine zvinyorwa zvendudzi dzakasiyana-siyana uye zvitaurwa zvakatapwa mumatunhu ose anotaurwa ChiNdevere muZimbabwe.

Corpus of spoken and written Ndebele (number of words)

Duramamwi reChiShona rezvidzidzo zvapamusoro

Advanced Shona Dictionary

Corpus of spoken and written Shona (expanded to 2 mill words)

Chikamu Chechitatu Chichatanga 2001 kusvika 2005

Phase 3 2001 - 2005

Duramazwi reChiShona rinoshandiswa nevadzidzi vemabhuku epasi

Scholar's Shona Dictionary (junior level)

Advanced Ndebele Dictionary

Chikamu Chechina: 2006 kusvika 2009

Phase 4 2006 - 2009

Duramazwi ReChiNdevere rinoshandiswa nevadzidzi vemabhuku epasi

Scholar's Ndebele Dictionary (junior level)

Mamwevo maduramazwi emitauro yezvizvarwa zvemuZimbabwe isiri ChiShona kana ChiNdevere.

General dictionaries for other Zimbabwean Languages

Pane hurongwa hwekuti madhatabhesi (denhezivo) emaduramazwi ataurwa pamusoro achazoumba hwaro hwekugadzira mamwezve maduramazvi ndudzi dzakasiyana anosanganisa anoshandiswa mumabasa akasiyana semuenzaniso yekuti duramazwi rezvemitemo, rezvekurapa rezvekurima nemamwevo. Mamwevo maduramazwi anogona kunyorwa zvichibva mumadhatabhesi ataurwa ndeaya angashandiswa nevanonetseka muzvidzidzo zvavo pamusana pokuremara. Dzimwe ndudzi dzemaduramazwi aya ndedzinotevera:

From the initial, general dictionaries, which are stored as databases, it will be possible to develop dictionaries for special language, for special educational needs, and bilingual dictionaries.

Duramazwi remashoko ezvemimhanzi.

Glossary of musical terms

Duramazwi remashoko anoshandiswa muongoro yenyanonyorwa.

Glossary of linguistic and literary terms

Duramazwi remifananidzo rinoshondiswa nevasingatauri riine ChiShona ChiNdevere neChiRungu.

Glossary of ZimSign with glosses in Shona, Ndebele and English

Maduramazwi anoshandiswa mune zvesainzi nemamwe mabasa akasiyana-siyana ane mitauro isingashandiswi neveruzhinji.

Glossaries of science and technical fields of knowledge

Semienzaniso:ChiShona kuenda kuChiNdevere, ChiNdevere kuenda kuChiShona, ChiShona neChiNdevere kuenda nekubva kune mimwe mitauro yakaita seChiRungu, . . ChiFrench, ChiSwahili neChiChewa.

Bilingual dictionaries (e. g. Shona-Ndebele/Ndebele-Shona, Shona and Ndebele to and from English / French / Swahili / Chewa)