32.3369, Books: Bukavu Swahili: Goyvaerts

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Subject: 32.3369, Books: Bukavu Swahili: Goyvaerts

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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 23:04:25
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: Bukavu Swahili: Goyvaerts

 


Title: Bukavu Swahili 
Subtitle: A Central African Koine 
Series Title: Languages of the World/Materials 515  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: http://lincom-shop.eu/epages/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d/Products/%22ISBN%209783969390696%22 


Author: Didier L. Goyvaerts

Paperback: ISBN:  9783969390696 Pages: 142 Price: Europe EURO 72.80


Abstract:

Bukavu Swahili is spoken as a first language by about 900,000 people in the
town of Bukavu (in the Kivu region of Eastern Congo) and its immediate
surroundings. Historically, it emerged within a context of linguistic
interaction among speakers of mutually intelligible, genetically related
language varieties. Bukavu Swahili is the result of this process viz. a
stabilized composite variety or koine.

Keeping technical terms to an absolute minimum, Bukavu Swahili: a Central
African Koine, provides a fairly exhaustive survey of the most salient
features of this completely new variety of Swahili about which hardly any
information is available. As such, it will be of interest to laymen and
professional linguists alike.

Another significant feature of the book is that, unusually perhaps, close
attention is paid to the sociolinguistic history of this particular area of
Central Africa. It has been common practice for linguists to use the term
“Kingwana” to refer to Congo Swahili as a whole. However, in rewriting the
history of the area, the author shows that it is wrong to use the term
“Kingwana” to refer to ‘the Swahili of Eastern Congo’. Instead, one should
allow for a clearcut division between Kingwana, on the one hand, and
Lubumbashi Swahili on the other. Also in this respect, the book will
constitute a significant addition to the scientific literature.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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