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The pervasiveness of multilingualism throughout the African continent has led it to be viewed as Africa's " lingua franca ". Nevertheless, sociolinguistic research on this topic has concentrated mostly on urbanized areas, even though the majority of Africans still live in rural regions, and rural multilingualism is clearly of much older provenance than its urban counterpart. In urban domains, individual language repertoires are dominated by the interplay between European ex-colonial languages, African lingua francas, and local languages, and language ideologies emphasize the ordering of languages in a hierarchy that is tied to social status. The situation in rural areas is clearly distinct, though it has yet to be thoroughly investigated, and the goal of this review is to summarize what is currently understood about rural multilingualism in Africa, highlighting, in particular, the ways in which it varies from better-known urban multilingualism. This survey begins by examining how early work on rural language use in Africa tended to background the presence of multilingualism in these societies. It then explores rural
Ms. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, …, 2005
... [2] I borrow the notion of a buffer zone from Stilo (2004). ... concord was often less regula... more ... [2] I borrow the notion of a buffer zone from Stilo (2004). ... concord was often less regular than that of Bantu, the noun prefixes often differed from the well known Bantu ones, and singular and plural classes could often not be paired into genders in the characteristic Bantu fashion. ...
... [4] The gloss abbreviations used in this presentation are as follows: Gloss Abbreviations CVC... more ... [4] The gloss abbreviations used in this presentation are as follows: Gloss Abbreviations CVConverb DX Deictic ... However, many verbs are complex, intrinsically consisting of an auxiliaryverb and a preceding deictic proclitic ... Also, multiple items are allowed to occur in position 3. ...
Reassessing Western Beboid∗ Jeff Good Jesse Lovegren University at Buffalo University at Buffalo ... more Reassessing Western Beboid∗ Jeff Good Jesse Lovegren University at Buffalo University at Buffalo jcgood@buffalo.edulovegren@buffalo.edu ... [1] The Western Beboid area, also known as Lower Fungom, is given on right (map based on (Hombert 1980:84), with minor updates)
[This article is currently under review for publication in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Li... more [This article is currently under review for publication in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, http://linguistics.oxfordre.com/]
The pervasiveness of multilingualism throughout the African continent has led it to be viewed as Africa's " lingua franca ". Nevertheless, sociolinguistic research on this topic has concentrated mostly on urbanized areas, even though the majority of Africans still live in rural regions, and rural multilingualism is clearly of much older provenance than its urban counterpart. In urban domains, individual language repertoires are dominated by the interplay between European ex-colonial languages, African lingua francas, and local languages, and language ideologies emphasize the ordering of languages in a hierarchy that is tied to social status. The situation in rural areas is clearly distinct, though it has yet to be thoroughly investigated, and the goal of this review is to summarize what is currently understood about rural multilingualism in Africa, highlighting, in particular, the ways in which it varies from better-known urban multilingualism. This survey begins by examining how early work on rural language use in Africa tended to background the presence of multilingualism in these societies. It then explores rural
Ms. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, …, 2005
... [2] I borrow the notion of a buffer zone from Stilo (2004). ... concord was often less regula... more ... [2] I borrow the notion of a buffer zone from Stilo (2004). ... concord was often less regular than that of Bantu, the noun prefixes often differed from the well known Bantu ones, and singular and plural classes could often not be paired into genders in the characteristic Bantu fashion. ...
... [4] The gloss abbreviations used in this presentation are as follows: Gloss Abbreviations CVC... more ... [4] The gloss abbreviations used in this presentation are as follows: Gloss Abbreviations CVConverb DX Deictic ... However, many verbs are complex, intrinsically consisting of an auxiliaryverb and a preceding deictic proclitic ... Also, multiple items are allowed to occur in position 3. ...
Reassessing Western Beboid∗ Jeff Good Jesse Lovegren University at Buffalo University at Buffalo ... more Reassessing Western Beboid∗ Jeff Good Jesse Lovegren University at Buffalo University at Buffalo jcgood@buffalo.edulovegren@buffalo.edu ... [1] The Western Beboid area, also known as Lower Fungom, is given on right (map based on (Hombert 1980:84), with minor updates)
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The pervasiveness of multilingualism throughout the African continent has led it to be viewed as Africa's " lingua franca ". Nevertheless, sociolinguistic research on this topic has concentrated mostly on urbanized areas, even though the majority of Africans still live in rural regions, and rural multilingualism is clearly of much older provenance than its urban counterpart. In urban domains, individual language repertoires are dominated by the interplay between European ex-colonial languages, African lingua francas, and local languages, and language ideologies emphasize the ordering of languages in a hierarchy that is tied to social status. The situation in rural areas is clearly distinct, though it has yet to be thoroughly investigated, and the goal of this review is to summarize what is currently understood about rural multilingualism in Africa, highlighting, in particular, the ways in which it varies from better-known urban multilingualism. This survey begins by examining how early work on rural language use in Africa tended to background the presence of multilingualism in these societies. It then explores rural
The pervasiveness of multilingualism throughout the African continent has led it to be viewed as Africa's " lingua franca ". Nevertheless, sociolinguistic research on this topic has concentrated mostly on urbanized areas, even though the majority of Africans still live in rural regions, and rural multilingualism is clearly of much older provenance than its urban counterpart. In urban domains, individual language repertoires are dominated by the interplay between European ex-colonial languages, African lingua francas, and local languages, and language ideologies emphasize the ordering of languages in a hierarchy that is tied to social status. The situation in rural areas is clearly distinct, though it has yet to be thoroughly investigated, and the goal of this review is to summarize what is currently understood about rural multilingualism in Africa, highlighting, in particular, the ways in which it varies from better-known urban multilingualism. This survey begins by examining how early work on rural language use in Africa tended to background the presence of multilingualism in these societies. It then explores rural