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The etymology of mbunzú for ‘White-man’ in Sango: Central African history
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Une histoire brève de l’origine de la langue sango en Afrique centrale
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Review of A dictionary of Cameroon Pidgin English usage: Pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary, by Jean-Paul Kouega
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Abstract:
This work is under copyright: the publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint this material in any form. ; The title of this little book is difficult to parse, but an examination reveals that it consists of a discussion of the origin of Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE) and its usage in the nation, a discussion of its orthography, a grammar (including word-building processes); samples of extemporaneous discourse; a dictionary; and a bibliography that is restricted to works on this language, only some of which are cited. As for its origin, the author adopts the view of other African writers, who claim that it arose during the slave-trade period, 1400–1800, when Cameroonians picked up English from British privateers working for the Portuguese. He believes, we learn in other publications, that CPE is only a contact language which dominates the neighbourhood domain and is dying, while English varieties are becoming less important at the expense of French, the dominant language of education, the media, and civil service.
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Pidgin languages
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/67188
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Review of Making Wawa: The genesis of Chinook Jargon, by George Lang
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Convergence and the retention of marked consonants in Sango
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Review of The dynamics of Sango language spread, by Mark Karan
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