Nubi
| Nubi | ||
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Spoken in |
Sudan , Uganda , Kenya | |
| speaker | 40,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
crp (other creole and pidgin languages) |
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| ISO 639-3 |
kcn |
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Nubi (also Ki-Nubi or Kinubi ) is a language spoken by about 25,000 people in Uganda , mainly in the Bombo area , and by about 15,500 people in Kenya , mostly in the Kibera area . It is a Creole language with an Arabic base - 90% of the vocabulary is derived from Arabic. However, grammar and phonetic system differ greatly from Arabic.
Many speakers of the Nubi are bilingual in Swahili or English . Although some linguists assume that the name of the language is derived from the term Nubia , it has no connection with the Nubian language .
The language has its origins in the south of Sudan (now South Sudan ). It originated in the course of the 19th century with the Arab troops of Emin Pasha . Around 1900 it established itself as a distinguishable variety of the Sudanese Arabic pidgin .
literature
- Ineke Hilda Werner Wellens: The Nubi Language of Uganda. An Arabic Creole in Africa. ( Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, Volume 45) Brill, Leiden 2005, ISBN 90-04-14518-4 (as dissertation from 2003, PDF 1.71 MB)
- Cornelia Khamis, Jonathan Owens: Nubi (Creole Arabic). In: John Holm, Peter L. Patrick (Eds.): Comparative Creole Syntax. Parallel Outlines of 18 Creole Grammars. Battlebridge, London 2007, pp. 199-216, ISBN 978-1-903292-01-3 .
Web links
- Nubi. A language of Uganda. Ethnologue