Clariidae
Clariidae (air-breathing catfish; subclass Actinopterygii, order Siluriformes) A large family of freshwater catfish that have elongate to eel-shaped bodies. The head carries four pairs of
barbels, the
dorsal and
anal fins are very long and spineless, and the tail fin is rounded. Typically clariids have a labyrinthic structure above the gill arches used as an
accessory respiratory organ.
Clarias batrachus (walking catfish) can move over land for short distances. One of the larger species,
Clarias mossambicus, grows to 1.2 m and is known to survive in poorly oxygenated African freshwater systems. There are about 100 species, found in Africa and tropical Asia.
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Afrikaans-only paper raises ire; Policy criticised at Stellenbosch.(News)
Newspaper article from: Cape Argus (South Africa); 10/23/2007; 700+ words
; ...Until late yesterday afternoon only an Afrikaans version of the draft document, released...that the document was released first in Afrikaans." She said the institution's lack...dissenting voices who don't read academic Afrikaans". She added that many of those waiting...
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 "Pretoria News (South Africa)")
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FW takes up cudgels for Afrikaans.(News)
Newspaper article from: Pretoria News (South Africa); 2/24/2007; 519 words
; BYLINE: Cornelia du Plooy Afrikaans is a language of liberation, not...Klerk, who spoke about the role of Afrikaans in a multi-cultural South Africa...summit of the Nasionale Forum vir Afrikaans. "The real question is: where...
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Festival Presents Two Sides of Afrikaans.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service; 10/6/2003; 700+ words
; ...and academic as they talked about the Afrikaans identity in society. Two different groups of Afrikaans speakers, one representing the post...discussion forum on Non-racialism in Afrikaans: How it will look and sound. This happened...
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Afrikaans No-Show: Hoekom?
News Wire article from: Africa News Service; 7/8/2003; 700+ words
; ...festival, there have been only a handful of shows in Afrikaans, one of which was cancelled due to lack of an audience. Are Afrikaans productions opting rather to perform at the many emerging Afrikaans festivals? Darryl Accone,an arts journalist...
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 "The Saturday Star (South Africa)")
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UJ woos Afrikaans students.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Saturday Star (South Africa); 10/18/2008; 700+ words
; ...most aggressive campaign yet to attract Afrikaans-speaking students back to its campuses...as a result of a merger between Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) and Technikon Witwatersrand...recruitment drive, which includes visits to Afrikaans communities, is aimed at turning the...
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Automatic lemmatisation for Afrikaans/Outomatiese lemma-identifisering vir Afrikaans.(Report)
Magazine article from: Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...namely a machine learning approach, to develop a lemmatiser for Afrikaans (LIA: "Lemmaidentifiseerder vir Afrikaans"). An overview regarding the process of inflection in Afrikaans is provided with the aim of identifying the categories of inflection...
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School queries Afrikaans matric results; Education bodies concerned.(News)
Newspaper article from: Cape Argus (South Africa); 1/27/2009; 700+ words
; ...school has raised concern about the matric Afrikaans marks after pupils who had obtained top...mentioned that the number of distinctions in Afrikaans had dropped significantly compared to...all the school's top candidates in Afrikaans first additional language should have...
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 "The Sunday Independent (South Africa)")
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Blogging in Afrikaans beats walking the dog to exercise the mind.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Independent (South Africa); 6/24/2007; 700+ words
; Afrikaans is alive and well and living on the wA...aggregator (a collection of web links) of Afrikaans webwerwe (websites) and boernale...thousands of them, from the extinct Afrikaans diergeluide (the link now opens the...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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In your language or mine? (South Africa passed a multilingual policy, but Afrikaners worry their language, AfriKaans, will be used less)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 9/17/1994; 700+ words
; ...these days--so long as the abuse is in Afrikaans and the abuser is black. Some even applaud...their mother tongue, the survival of the Afrikaans language is at risk. South Africa...into all 11 tongues, as they were into Afrikaans and English when those two were the languages...
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 "Cape Times (South Africa)")
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Afrikaans is a shared language that can help us reach across the divides.(News)
Newspaper article from: Cape Times (South Africa); 8/29/2008; 700+ words
; ...Mobilisation along ethnic lines in the Afrikaans community: is it the easy option or...among a number of organisations in the Afrikaans language community. The outcome was...Taalraad, seen as a first step in unlocking Afrikaans expertise and optimising available infrastructure...
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Afrikaans
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Afrikaans , member of the West Germanic group of...variant of Dutch (see Dutch language ). Afrikaans is spoken by close to 8 million people...essentially similar to that of Dutch; Afrikaans has absorbed quite a few words from the...
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AFRIKAANS ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
AFRIKAANS ENGLISH. English used as a second language...South Africa and Namibia by speakers of AFRIKAANS . It is generally rhotic, characterized...piecess’ for pieces . Because Afrikaans verbs are not marked for third-person...
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AFRIKAANS
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
AFRIKAANS. A LANGUAGE related to DUTCH , the mother tongue of about 6m people in Southern Africa and a second language for millions of South...
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Afrikaners
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...POPULATION: About 3.3 million LANGUAGE: Afrikaans RELIGION: Protestantism 1 •...known as Afrikaners. Their language, Afrikaans, began as a spoken dialect, but developed...to Afrikaner political parties, spoke Afrikaans, supported Afrikaner cultural and linguistic...
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Cape Coloreds
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...POPULATION: 3.6 million LANGUAGE: Afrikaans; English RELIGION: Christianity; Islam...spoke the same languages (English and Afrikaans), worshiped in the same churches...Coloreds speak two languages, English and Afrikaans. At one stage during the struggle against...
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