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Publication details [#34307]
Owens, Jonathan. 1991. Nubi, Genetic Linguistics, and Language Classification. Anthropological Linguistics 33 (1) : 1–30.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Indiana University
ISBN
0003-5483
Annotation
This paper which compares East African Nubi, an Arabic- based creole, to Sudanic Arabic, and to Bari and Mamvu, two potential substrate languages, argues that Sudanic Arabic is the most significant source for Nubi.