Publications

Publication details [#41232]

Mutonya, Mungai and Timothy H. Parsons. 2004. KiKAR: a Swahili variety in Kenya’s colonial army. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 25 (2) : 111–125.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language attitude | language change | language contact | language for special purposes | language variety

Language as a subject

Swahili

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This paper discusses the growth and development of KiKAR, a simpliﬁed Swahili variety, in the Kenyan battalions of the King’s African Riﬂes (KAR), during the early 20th century inter-war period .