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A Language for the World : The Standardization of Swahili / Morgan J. Robinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robinson, Morgan J., 1986- author.
- Series:
- New African histories series.
- New African Histories Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Swahili language--Standardization.
- Swahili language.
- Swahili language--History.
- Swahili language--Social aspects.
- Sociolinguistics--Africa, East.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- Based on extensive archival research, this intellectual history of Standard Swahili--a dialect of the Swahili language written in the Latin alphabet--argues that attention to the intertwined processes of codification from 1864 to 1964 lends new perspectives on history, colonialism, time, and cultural representation in East Africa and beyond.
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- New African Histories
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1: "Note-Books and Slowly Accumulating Vocabularies"
- 2: Msimulizi and the Cultivation of the Upelekwa
- 3: German Zeit and Swahili Time
- 4: Interlocutors in Interterritorial Codification
- 5: The East African Literature Bureau: Creating Creativity in Standard Swahili
- 6: Rumblings of Unanticipated Demand
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Robinson, Morgan J. A Language for the World
- ISBN:
- 9780821447819
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