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Publication details [#30157]

Tosco, Mauro. 1995. A Pidgin verbal system: The case of Juba Arabic. Anthropological Linguistics 37 (4) : 423–459.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

creole | language change | language contact | pidgin | verb

Language as a subject

Arabic, Juba | Arabic, Sudanese, Colloquial | Ki-Nubi

Place, Publisher

Indiana University

ISBN

0003-5483

Annotation

This paper discusses the verbal system of Juba Arabic, an Arabic-based pidgin of southern Sudan, and compares it with Ki-Nubi, an Arabic-based eastern African creole and with Sudanese Colloquial Arabic. It is argued that Juba Arabic moves apart from Ki-Nubi as a result of the influence of Sudanese Colloquial Arabic and its ensuing depidginization.