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Publication details [#30720]
Owens, Jonathan. 1995. Language in the graphics mode: Arabic among the Kanuri of Nigeria. Language Sciences 17 (2) : 181–199. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0388-0001
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper describes how language within the traditional islamic educational system of the Nigerian Kanuri, is first acquired as a 'graphic', an indivisible whole, restricted by its very nature to the religious domain.