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| Title: | Arabs and Arabic in the Lake Chad region |
| Editor: | Owens, Jonathan |
| Year: | 1994 |
| Issue: | 14 |
| Pages: | 310 |
| Language: | French |
| Series: | Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika (ISSN 0170-5946) |
| City of publisher: | Köln |
| Publisher: | Rüdiger Köppe Verlag |
| ISBN: | 3927620238 |
| Geographic terms: | Nigeria Cameroon Chad |
| Subjects: | Arabs Arabic language |
| Abstract: | The six papers in this volume take up the question of the origin of the Arabs and the Arabic language in the Lake Chad region (Chad, Nigeria, Cameroon). Contents: Introduction, by Jonathan Owens - Notes on the origin of Baggara Arab culture with special reference to the Shuwa, by Ulrich Braukämper - De la Tripolitaine au Tchad: les Awlad Sulayman, by Jean-Claude Zeltner - Premières migrations arabes du Fezzan au Kanem: une brève communication, by Jean-Claude Zeltner - Nigerian Arabic in comparative perspective, by Jonathan Owens - Turku: a descriptive and comparative study, by Mauro Tosco and Jonathan Owens - Early East African pidgin Arabic, by Alan S. Kaye and Mauro Tosco. |