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Arabs and Arabic in the Lake Chad Region
Edited by: Jonathan Owens. With an introduction by: Jonathan Owens. With contributions by: Ulrich Braukämper †, Alan S. Kaye †, Jonathan Owens, Mauro Tosco, Jean-Claude Zeltner.
Series: SUGIA Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, Volume 14
1994310 pp.
6 maps, numerous tables
Text language(s): English, French
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CONTENTS
Jonathan Owens: Introduction
Ulrich Braukämper: Notes on the Origin of Baggara Arab Culture with Special Reference to the Shuwa
Jean-Claude Zeltner: De la Tripolitaine au Tchad – les Awlad Sulayman. Premières migrations arabes du Fezzan au Kanem: une brève communication
Jonathan Owens: Nigerian Arabic in Comparative Perspective
Mauro Tosco / Jonathan Owens: Turku – A Descriptive and Comparative Study
Alan S. Kaye / Mauro Tosco: Early East African Pidgin Arabic
Under these links you will find publications by the contributors and further studies of languages and cultures of the Lake Chad region:
Accompanying material:
- A Gawwada Dictionary
(ISBN 978-3-89645-494-2 ) - A Grammar of Gawwada
(ISBN 978-3-89645-493-5 ) - Environmental and Cultural Dynamics
in the West African Savanna
(ISBN 978-3-89645-478-2 ) - Living with the Lake
(ISBN 978-3-89645-216-0 ) - Man and Health in the Lake Chad Basin / L’homme et la santé dans le bassin du lac Tchad
(ISBN 978-3-89645-897-1 ) - Siedler am Tschadsee
(ISBN 978-3-89645-218-4 )
Cross-reference:
- Clapperton in Borno
(ISBN 978-3-927620-54-4 ) - From Bulamari to Yerwa to Metropolitan Maiduguri
(ISBN 978-3-89645-460-7 ) - From the Tana River to Lake Chad – Research in African Oratures and Literatures
(ISBN 978-3-89645-836-0 ) - Sprachkulturelle und historische Forschungen in Afrika
(ISBN 978-3-927620-97-1 )
Reviews
The authors of the six papers in this volume discuss the origin of Arabs and Arabic in the Lake Chad region, taking into account the historical relations between this region and the rest of the Sudanese belt, including upper Egypt, Libya, and the Sudan. There are few studies on this topic, despite the appearance of a number of publications over the last fifteen years. The contributors to the present volume, specialists in their fields, provide an updated bibliography. Moreover, the volume encompasses both historical and linguistic analyses. For all these reasons the volume is stimulating, raises many issues, and is a landmark in the field of sub-Saharan Arabic history and linguistics.
Catherine Miller in Anthropological Linguistics, 38/2, 1996, 383–386
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Pierre Larcher in Arabica, 44/2, 1997, 327-329
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