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Britain.tv Wikipedia - Creole language A creole language, or just creole, is a well-defined and stable language that originated from a non-trivial combination of two or more languages, typically with many distinctive features that are not inherited from either parent. Another factor that may have contributed to the longtime neglect of creole languages is that they do not fit the "tree model"?title=for the evolution of languages, which was adopted by linguists in the 19th century (possibly influenced by Darwinism) and is still the foundation of the comparative method. Pidgins can become full languages in only a generation, as with Tok Pisin, which was born as a pidgin and became a stable language in a period of 90 years. www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Creole_language   (1275 words)

creole language Information Center - haitian creole language A Creole is a language descended from a pidgin that creole in language education has become the native language of a group of people. The majority of creole languages are based on English, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Spanish as the superstrate language, with local or immigrant languages as substrate languages. Pidgins are rudimentary languages improvised by non-native speakers; when pidgins creolize, however, creole language they develop fully-formed and stable grammar structures, usually as a result of the pidgin being natively learned by children (see Nicaraguan Sign Language). www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Linguistic_Topics_Cr_-_G/creole_language.html   (1089 words)

Amazon.fr : The Nubi Language of Uganda: An Arabic Creole in Africa: Livres en anglais: Inneke Hilda Werner ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Amazon.fr : The Nubi Language of Uganda: An Arabic Creole in Africa: Livres en anglais: Inneke Hilda Werner Wellens,Wellens,I. Wellens The Nubi language is spoken in Uganda and Kenya. The growth and development of the Nubi language must be situated near Lake Albert towards the end of the nineteenth century. www.amazon.fr /Nubi-Language-Uganda-Creole-Africa/dp/9004145184   (337 words)

Nubi language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Nubi language (also called Ki-Nubi) is a Sudanese Arabic-based creole language spoken in Uganda around Bombo and Kenya around Kibera by the descendants of Emin Pasha's Sudanese soldiers, settled there by the British. Although its name literally means Nubian, it bears no relation at all to the Nubian languages spoken by Nubian groups in the south of Egypt and north of Sudan; its name derives from a misuse of the term "Nubi". Heine, Bernd (1982) The Nubi Language of Kibera - an Arabic Creole. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nubi_language   (452 words)

Nubi or Nubians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Some argue that the name “Nubians”; derives from a word in the Nubian language meaning slaves and others say that the ancient Egyptian word “nab” meant gold and that the Ancient Egyptians used the term to refer to the Nubian Valley because of the gold mines nearby. The Nubi originated in the Sudan and spread to various East African countries due to their involvement with the British army. The Nubi people also face a problem where their land is being bought by the rich. www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/africa/nubi.html   (989 words)

Language Log: Where have all the inflections gone? Based on Latin shedding so much of its inflections in becoming the Romance languages, and English's being such an inflection-shy sister in the Germanic family compared to, most strikingly, grand old Icelandic, linguists are taught that it is "natural" for languages to "molt" as a matter of course. The linguist is accustomed to attending talks on these languages encountering bristling paradigms of prefixes and suffixes, indicating the obviative, the inverse and God knows what else, complete with portmanteau morphemes (that is, where one prefix or suffix carries two meanings, such as "me plus him"). The evidence suggests that the post-Neolithic "punctuations" that Bob Dixon describes in human languages' timelines have often sheared away a degree of languages' "mess" as they were imposed on adult speakers and passed down in abbreviated form to succeeding generations. itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/000169.html   (826 words)

The Nubi of Kenya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Nubi are also found in Uganda, though it is unclear if the two communities maintain contact now, or can understand each other’s language. The Nubi people also face a problem where their land is being grabbed by the rich. Language: The Nubian Creole Arabic is said to be no longer intelligible with Sudan Creole Arabic. dickinsg.intrasun.tcnj.edu /nations/kenya/nubi.html   (659 words)

A Cultural Profile of the Nubi People of Kenya These Nubi people developed as a unique ethnicity, as individuals from various Sudan tribes melded together in the new settlements in Uganda and Kenya, marrying local women. There appears to be no contact between the Nubi groups and the Nubians who have descended directly from the ancient Nubians in various linguistic and cultural tribal descent in their home areas. The Nubi's language is reported by some to be no longer intelligible with Sudan Creole Arabic (Juba Arabic). orvillejenkins.com /profiles/nubi.html   (977 words)

WikiMiki.net - Nubi Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) - Bernd Heine (1982) The Nubi Language of Kibera - an Arabic Creole. Pidgins can be come full languages in only a generation, as with Tok Pisin, which has become a pidgin, and now a language in a period of 90 years. The language with the largest number of native speakers is Luganda, spoken in the Buganda region which encompasses Kampala. arabia.saud.es.wikimiki.net /es/Ash+Sharqiyah+(Provincia+del+Este)   (11302 words)

The Waters of Hermes - Le Acque di Ermes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Readers can enjoy in the contents of the present volume not only the beauty of its poetic language and the enlightenment of its essays and narrative segments but also a strong ethical message that encourages us to overcome materialism and nihilism and defeat the ominous forces that threaten the highest values of humanity. E nelle nubi che si aprivano, nel vuoto del centro, c’erano aquile che volavano ad ali aperte, che echeggiavano le canzoni del danzatore. E le nubi si divisero in due tempeste e colpirono le terre a Nord e a Sud, distruggendo i giardini e soffiando forte. www.cofc.edu /languages/italian/wh/hermes3.html   (3485 words)

Arabic-based creole languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia An Arabic-based creole language, or simply Arabic creole is a creole language which was significantly influenced by the Arabic language. Nubi: An Arabic-based creole spoken by descendants of Sudanese soldiers mainly in Kenya and Uganda, formed in the nineteenth century from a Sudanese Arabic-based pidgin used for intercommunication among Southern Sudanese ethnic groups. Babalia Creole Arabic: A Shuwa Arabic-based creole spoken in 23 villages of the Chari-Baguirmi Prefecture in southwestern Chad; the substrate language was Berakou. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arabic-based_creole_languages   (145 words)

Etymologie, Étymologie, Etymology - UG Uganda - Sprache, Langue, Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) ethnologue - Jie - Language of UG (E3)(L1) http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=kdj ethnologue - Jo Alur - Language of UG (E3)(L1) http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=alz ethnologue - Rwanda - Language of UG (E3)(L1) http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=kin www.etymologie.info /~e/u_/ug-sprach.html   (2717 words)

Nubi language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Bernd Heine, The Nubi Language of Kibera - an Arabic Creole. An Arabic creole in Africa: the Nubi language of Uganda (Doctoral dissertation, Nijmegen). Category:Arabic languages Category:Languages of Kenya Category:Languages of Uganda Category:Pidgins and creoles nubi-language.kiwiki.homeip.net   (330 words)

Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles Detailed 1988; case studies Languages: of individual pidgins and by creoles 1964; are Mark based around texts 1959; drawn from a range SebbaX of 2000; different SebbaX types and 2008; contexts (mainly contemporary), SebbaX with 2003; discussion and by grammatical notes. Language in Mind: Advances in the Study of Languag The Nubi Language of Uganda: An Arabic Creole in A www.bunchesofspecials.com /specials.php?452515   (296 words)

Arabic in East Africa: Language Profile The Nubi, or Nubians, are shown in the 1989 Kenya census as 6,000. However, the term Kinubi for their language seems to indicate their bilingualism in Swahili and their association with Kenyan African society. Though some refer to their language as Kinubi, it would not be appropriate in technical linguistic usage to call their language by this term, as that is the word for their language in Swahili. orvillejenkins.com /profiles/arablang.html   (1060 words)

Sudanese Arabic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Neverthless, Sudanese Arabic is similar to standard Arabic in many respects and as with all Arabic variations, is derived from the language of the Qur'an. Many of the agricultural and farming terms in Sudanese Arabic were adopted from Nubian, since Arabic was a language associated with nomadism and so lacked the vocabulary for the settled agricultural lifestyle. Because of the varying influence of local languages in different parts of Sudan, there is considerable regional variation in Arabic spoken throughout the country. www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-Sudanese_Arabic   (857 words)

BigBlueBall Forums - View Single Post - Toy for childen education Messages Downloading and Language Repeating: There is a great number of English humors, short stories suitable for students of every grade. There are dozens of NUBI funny remarks on web site, you can download and change them, as you like. If you want NUBI to speak whatever you want to say, you can speak them out toward NUBI, it will record and play them for you under your operation. www.bigblueball.com /forums/80690-post1.html   (853 words)

LINGUIST List 16.3225: Lang Description/Pidgins&Creoles:Luffin(2004,2005)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) In terms of language acquisition, the situation is similar to the creole language -- in the sense that its grammar is a vast subtraction The Nubi language of Kibera -- an Arabic creole. linguistlist.org /issues/16/16-3225.html   (1801 words)

Dissertations Abstracts/Middle East & Islam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Nubi Arabic is a creolized variety of Arabic, spoken in Uganda and Kenya by appr. Nubi Arabic developed from a pidginized variety of Arabic, which originated in the 19th century in the camps of the Egyptian army in Upper Egypt and the Sudan. This is a grammar of Kunuz Nubian (KN), an Eastern Sudanic language spoken in Southern Egypt. www.library.cornell.edu /colldev/mideast/diss.htm   (12163 words)

Motu language resources Motu language J Jersey Dutch K Kreyol Lwiziyen Kriol Kriol language Kristi L Lingua franca Lunguyê Língua da Casa M Malay-based creoles Mauritian Creole Mobilian Jargon N Negerhollands Nigerian Pidgin Nubi language P... Government of the Marquesas 3 Language of the Marquesas 4 History of the Marquesas 5 Demographics of the... The Motu language is one of many Central Papuan languages spoken by the Motuans, native habitants of Papua New Guinea. www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Motu.html   (1573 words)

Anthropological Linguistics vol. 33, no. 1 In this paper I compare East African Nubi, an Arabic- based creole, to Sudanic Arabic, and to two potential substrate languages, Bari and Mamvu, and conclude that Sudanic Arabic is the most significant source. It is further suggested that one can speak of Nubi being genetically related to Arabic, and, by implication, that genetic relationship is generally one aspect of a creole's characterization. Although linguistic gender in European languages is thought to be based primarily on convention, the study suggests that gender usage in the dialectal data is facultative (i.e., open to conscious awareness and meaningful manipulation). www.indiana.edu /~anthling/v33-1.html   (465 words)

Sudanese Arabic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sudan is the melting pot for African and Arabian cultures. Sudanese Arabic is derived from the language of the Qur'an, but the mixing of Egyptian Arabic and Arabic from the Arabian peninsula with the local languages led to the creation of a variety of Arabic that's specific only to Sudan, because of its African/Arabic nature. Sudanese Arabic has also been heavily influenced by the Nubian Language, which in ancient times was the dominant language in Southern Egypt and Northern Sudan. www.godseye.com /stat/en/s/u/d/Sudanese_Arabic_ac4c.html   (230 words)

Language and Dialect Atlas of Kenya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) The Nubi Language of Kibera - An Arabic Creole. Proverbs from the Lamu Archipelago and the Central Kenya Coast. Die Reihe wird fortgesetzt unter dem Titel East African Languages and Dialects. www.uni-koeln.de /phil-fak/afrikanistik/publikationen/ldak.shtml?_D_   (57 words)

Other Information of- Sudanese Arabic.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Hence the Sudanese Arabic "јellabiyya" (the traditional garb worn by men in Egypt and Sudan) is used as opposed to "gellabiyya" in Egypt. In northern and central parts of Sudan, Sudanese colloquial Arabic has been influenced by the Nobiin language, which in ancient times was the dominant language in Southern Egypt and Northern Sudan. In northern Sudan, greetings are typically extended, and involve multiple questions about the other persons health, their family etc. Greetings often begin with the universal Salaam a leykum / A leykum salaam (Peace to you / and to you) exchange common to Muslims eveywhere. sudanese.arabic.en.moneylist.info   (2659 words)

Nubi - Personal Background of Nubi the Priest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) [04/19/06 20:50:02] nubi [358/525] has challenged Twilight [99/307] in combat 0 days, 16:00:24 is removed from nubi's clock. Nubi language The Nubi language (also called Ki-Nubi) is a Sudanese Arabic -based creole language spoken in Uganda around Bombo and Kenya around. I was born on the 15th of Scarlatan, 271 years after the fall of the Selucarian Empire, to a pious couple in Cyrene infocape.com /?q=nubi   (192 words)

curriculum vitae Language Processing and Language Acquisition in a Root-Based Morphology. A World of Language: Papers Presented to Professor S.A. Wurm on his 65th Birthday, 233-43. The Nubi Language of Kibera: An Arabic Creole. www-personal.umich.edu /~jheath/articles.html   (778 words)

Ethnologue report for language code:kcn Formerly a soldier language, which split off from Sudanese Pidgin Arabic about 1900.There are conflicting reports of intelligibility of Sudanese Creole Arabic. Speakers use Swahili for out-group communication and Nubi for in-group communication, with a stable bilingualism. This web edition of the Ethnologue contains all the content of the print edition and may be cited as: www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=kcn   (90 words)

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