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Ki-Nubi
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1. General About 25,000 (Ki-)Nubi speakers live scattered throughout the towns of Uganda and Kenya. Nubi is essentially a spoken language. Written literature hardly exists. Nubi, used as a lingua franca in the West Nile district in northern Uganda, has often been called an Arabic creole. (Creole Arabic). The Nubi language most likely originated in the southern Sudan. Owens (1996) suggests that before 1820 a pidgin Arabic was already in use in sub-Saharan Africa, also called the Sudan. The events that fostered the development of Nubi, however, began around 182…
Date:
2018-12-18
