[lit-ideas] Re: "The African Language" (Was: Julie's Query)
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- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:44:40 EDT
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/).
=09
Michael Chase
(goya@xxxxxxxxxxx)
CNRS UPR 76
7, rue Guy Moquet
Villejuif 94801
France
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