The Nubi Language of Uganda: An Arabic Creole in AfricaBRILL, 2005 - 443 Seiten The Nubi language is spoken in Uganda and Kenya. Nubi is Arabic, since about 90% of its vocabulary is of an Arabic nature. It is often termed a creole, since many of its structural and developmental features resemble those of known creoles. The growth and development of the Nubi language must be situated near Lake Albert towards the end of the nineteenth century. This period is well documented and is described at length in the first part. This volume also provides a detailed description of the Nubi language of Uganda, and it deals with the development of the language and searches for the relevant Arabic source dialects. The book includes more than one thousand examples and several texts, recorded by the author during two extensive periods of field research. |
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Table | 2 |
The Noun Phrase | 3 |
Table | 8 |
NubiTurku distinctions in the lexicon | 26 |
Table | 32 |
Features of non individuation of the object | 142 |
Future expressions | 166 |
List of Nubi transitiveintransitive verbs | 181 |
Nubi from a Diachronic and Comparative Perspective | 284 |
Number in Arabic pcs | 318 |
Numeral formation in Turku and JANubi | 327 |
Nubi and Turku verbs derived from Arabic | 334 |
Transitive ufinal verbs and intransitive Cfinal | 342 |
Features of gerunds in Bari | 358 |
NubiTurku distinctions in | 364 |
texts | 381 |
Distribution and use of the gerund and infinitive | 189 |
Nubi expressions of possession | 207 |
Creole TMAmarkers and their functions | 213 |
Prepositional combinations | 220 |
Clause Structure | 247 |
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1SING 2SING a'jol a'nas adjectives adverbs an(a Arabic dialects Arabic p/cs arija ase'de ba'ba ba'kan be-ANT bi'niya child co-occur come-Ø COMPL CONJ consonant creole creole languages definite article demonstrative do-Ø dol'de EA/SA Egyptian EMPH endi EXIS expressed fogo gerund girl Givón go-Ø have-Ø imperative INDEF it(a itokum je'de Juba Arabic ka'lam ka'man ke'de kelem Kenyan Nubi La'kin language ma'ma marked marya means mother Muraz na'de nouo NPROP Nubi language nyere❜ku occur pidgin plural preposition PROG progressive marker PRON 3PL PRON 3SING PRON 3SING PROG PRON ISING PRON POSS 1PL PRON POSS 3SING pronoun PROX PL ragi referential refers REL PRON s.th say-Ø sentence Shuwa slaves sokol source forms speakers stative stative verbs stress su'nu SUBJ Sudanese Arabic Swahili syllable tena Tosco and Owens toumon Turku Uganda Ugandan Nubi umon verb form vowel want-Ø words you(PL youm وو