[lit-ideas] Re: "The African Language" (Was: Julie's Query)

From: Michael Chase <goya@xxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:23:23 -0700

Le 30 juil. 04, =E0 07:53, Mike Geary a =E9crit :

>
>
> Mbala, oolongo simba,

M.C. Simba *is* of course a word in *an* African language (meaning=20
lion), namely Swahili, a pidgin tongue with Bantu syntax and grammar=20
and lots of Arabic loan-words. But it appears that *barack*, in any of=20=

its variant spellings, is not Swahili; not, at any rate, according to=20
the online Swahili-English dictionaries=20
(http://www.freedict.com/onldict/swa.html=A0;=20
http://www.yale.edu/swahili/).

=09

Michael Chase
(goya@xxxxxxxxxxx)
CNRS UPR 76
7, rue Guy Moquet
Villejuif 94801
France

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[lit-ideas] Re: "The African Language" (Was: Julie's Query)
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[lit-ideas] Re: "The African Language" (Was: Julie's Query)
From: Mike Geary

[lit-ideas] Re: "The African Language" (Was: Julie's Query)

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