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

Do you know any of the African languages/dialects?  
 
Julie Krueger
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Le 30 juil. 04, =E0 07:53, Mike Geary a  =E9crit :

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> 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/).

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

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