Osman M.O. Ali

List of John Benjamins publications for which Osman M.O. Ali plays a role.

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Bashir, Abeer M.A. and Osman M.O. Ali 2024 Chapter 10. Tagoi birth names: A historical change from African to Islamic/Arabic names Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa, Hollington, Andrea, Alice Mitchell and Nico Nassenstein (eds.), pp. 253–276 | Chapter
Among many groups of the Nuba Mountains, personal names denote birth order, i.e., whether a child is the first, second, third, etc., among their siblings. Tagoi, a Niger-Congo language spoken in the north-eastern Nuba Mountains, shows such a naming system. Tagoi children receive another name,… read more