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    Multimodal Pedagogical Skills of Kenyan English Secondary School Teachers
    (African Journal of Advanced Arts and Humanities, 2026-03) Midigo, Jackton Otieno; Cherop, Kapkwomu Charles
    This study investigated morphophonological adaptation of Luganda nouns into Kupsabiny, a Nilotic language spoken in Kapchorwa District, Eastern Uganda. Although lexical borrowing is widespread in multilingual contexts, little research has examined the interaction between Luganda and Kupsabiny despite Luganda’s growing linguistic influence. The study aimed to identify the morphophonological processes involved in adapting Luganda nouns into Kupsabiny, focusing on how morphological affixation interacts with phonological adjustments to align borrowed nouns with Kupsabiny’s linguistic structure. A qualitative descriptive research design was employed, using semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions to collect natural speech data from twenty-one purposively selected native Kupsabiny speakers aged between 18 and 50 years. Data were analyzed within the framework of Optimality Theory. The findings revealed that Kupsabiny assimilates Luganda nouns through affixation and phonological modifications such as vowel harmony, tone adjustment, epenthesis, and consonant substitution. These processes are governed by markedness constraints that favor open syllable structures (CV) and restrict consonant clusters. The study concludes that morphological and phonological mechanisms in Kupsabiny operate interdependently in integrating borrowed forms. Overall, the findings highlight a systematic adaptation process that enables Kupsabiny to maintain structural integrity while accommodating lexical influence from a dominant language like Luganda.