Covering all aspects of the history of Arabic, the Arabic linguistic tradition, Arabic dialects,
sociolinguistics and Arabic as a world language, this introductory guide is perfect for …

Although the comparative method has been applied to a range of African language families,
these have received little coverage in general textbooks. The present monograph was …

We provide a selective overview of the state of pidgin and creole language studies, with a
focus on the different ways in which the question of creole genesis—especially of European …

In this article I propose that creoles are relatively transparent compared to their source
languages. This means that they display more one-to-one relations between meaning and …

Nubi is a language with culminative word prominence, spoken in Uganda and Kenya. The
prominence, or accent, falls within a right-edge three-syllable window, and at the phrasal …

Arabic is one of the major language bundles of the world, in terms of native speakers
(estimated between 250 to 350 millions), geographical expansion, and role as language of …

The African continent harbors upwards of 2,000 spoken indigenous languages–more than a
fourth of the world's total. Using ISO 639-3 language/dialect divisions and including extinct …

Evidence from Arabic-based pidgins, such as Bongor Arabic, Juba Arabic, Pidgin Madame,
and Gulf Pidgin Arabic, and from the Arabic-based creole Ki-Nubi, shows that in these …

This chapter aims to illustrate the emergence of Arabic-lexifier pidgins and creoles for which
the contact situation–ie socio-historical context, the agents of change, and the languages …

East African Nubi has classic attributes of a creole—it was formed in a short period of time
and its structure diverges dramatically from its lexical source, Egyptian and Sudanic Arabic …