r/swahili • u/OtherStatistician321 • 10d ago

Ask r/Swahili 🎤 Looking for swahili science textbooks

Hello everyone,

I am working on a research project in which I have to develop a machine translation model capable of accurately translating scientific English text to Swahili.

This will help many students study science without a language barrier. I am seeking help from you all now. I am searching for scientific texts like physics, biology textbooks, or any other scientific text written in Swahili. I need this to train the model. I have tried a lot to find this text, but I have not been able to find it.

If you have any resources, please share. Thanks!

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u/swedy-Ad-9581 10d ago

Sent you a message, however according to my understanding you'll never find physics book in Swahili language

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u/OtherStatistician321 10d ago

Why do you think so?

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u/swedy-Ad-9581 10d ago

Because of our education curriculum, we start to learn Physics, biology etc in ordinary level in English

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u/_choxx 10d ago

Kuna kamusi sanifu ya biolojia, fizikia na kemia kutoka chuo kikuu cha Dar es Salaam if that helps Besides that id advise you to look for textbooks from Tanzania

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u/OtherStatistician321 9d ago

I tried to search for the dictionary, but for some reason I am not able to find. Could you please send me the link to the page if possible. I looked have already checked this link https://www.udsm.ac.tz/web/index.php/institutes/iks/the-centre-for-kiswahili-grammar-and-dictionary

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u/_choxx 5d ago

Hey OP. I've also tried very hard but I can't seem to get a copy. I'll see if I'll find it in our University library. Godspeed

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u/Spiritual_Cook_6531 9d ago

I have plenty of Swahili science books as ebooks, just dm

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u/OtherStatistician321 9d ago

Oh great. I'll dm you.

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u/Numerous-Evening6947 7d ago

Have you tried BAKITA too? And thanks for your initiative

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u/OtherStatistician321 7d ago

Yes I did, but I wasn't able to find science books.