Language taboos in Kinubi: a comparison with Sudanese and Swahili cultures

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Title:	Language taboos in Kinubi: a comparison with Sudanese and Swahili cultures
Author:	Luffin, Xavier
Year:	2002
Periodical:	Africa: rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione
Volume:	57
Issue:	3
Pages:	356-367
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Uganda Kenya
Subjects:	popular beliefs lingua francas Nubi language
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/40761635
Abstract:	The Nubi constitute a small Muslim minority in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Although their name comes from the Arabic denomination for Nubians, they are not Nubians, but the descendants of different populations - Bari, Kuku, Meru, Fodjulu - who originate from southern Sudan. They arrived in East Africa around 1900 as soldiers enlisted in the British troops. Their language, Kinubi, is an Arabic-based Creole, close to Juba Arabic, with numerous borrowings from both Swahili and English. This article analyses language taboos in Kinubi and compares these with similar language taboos in Arabic, especially dialectical Arabic as spoken in North Africa, Sudan and Chad, and in Swahili. The article is based on recordings made in Bombo, Uganda, in December 1999, and in Kibera and Mombasa, Kenya, from December 2000 until January 2001, and on conversations with Nubi informants in the same periods. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in French and Italian. [ASC Leiden abstract]