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Kamanga, Chimwemwe. 2014. Who speaks Chibrazi, the urban contact vernacular of Malawi? Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 45 (2) : 257–275.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
description | language change | language contact | language variety | urban community | vernacular
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

Malawi's urban contact vernacular, Chibrazi, constitutes a mixed or hybrid variety that parodies the country's language contact and contact induced language change. A descriptive analysis of this variety examines e.g. who speaks this variety.