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Loans in Kanuri
No full textKanuri is a Nilo-Saharan language, which has one of the highest number of Arabic loans,
except maybe Hausa (see Baldi 2002). Its lexicon “might be described as a layered lexicon. It
is layered chronologically in the sense that it is possible to recognize words in the language
that are older as distinct from words that have not been in the language as long and also
others that have entered the language from other language sources. Borrowed words in the
lexicon as well are layered chronologically, since certain Arabic loan words have been part of
the language for as much as a thousand years, whereas words from Hausa entered much later,
and words from English only very recently”
On Language Contacts in the Mega-Chad Area: The Arabic Influence
No full textLa diffusion de l’Islam en Afrique a forcément introduit des mots nouveaux dans presque toutes les langues parlées dans les zones pénétrées par cette religion. Ces mots ont le plus souvent leurs équivalents dans les langues africaines, d’où le sens péjoratif qu’ils prennent chez les locuteurs: c’est le cas des mots concernant les parties du corps humain et leur connotation. Concernant ce sujet on s´est concentré sur les langues majoritaires dans la zone soudanaise, c.à.d. le hausa, kanuri, fulfulde, mais nous faisons aussi référence à des langues tchadiques minoritaires, comme le kwami et le kupto
Sergio Baldi, Dizionario Hausa: Hausa-Italiano, Italiano-Hausa. Milano: Ulrico Hoepli Editore S.p.A., 2015, 588 pp.
No full textA review of a book by Sergio Baldi "Dizionario Hausa: Hausa-Italiano, Italiano-Hausa"
A Semantic Shift of Arabic Loanwords into Hausa
No full textA Semantic Shift of some Arabic Loanwords tested among some 3000 loans into Hausa
Proceedings of the 3nd International Conference on Hausa Studies: African and European Perspectives Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Napoli 5th-6th July, 2010
No full textThe 3rd International Conference on Hausa Studies with a theme “Afri-can and Europeans Perspectives in Hausa Linguistics, Literature and Cul-ture” was organized by the Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, Italy under the linkage of the agreement with the Department of Nigerian Languages and Linguistics, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria.
It was the third Conference after Warsaw (June 2006) and Kano (February 2009), where it was stated that this kind of Conferences should take place alternatively in Kano and in Europe with a periodi-cal rate. The editors stress their wish that this kind of Conference or, using a term less sophisticated, Workshop, would be a sort of regular meeting among European and African scholars dealing with Nigerian languages with a special focus on Hausa. In our daily world linguists dealing with some languages have their own network with their peri-odical occasions of meetings (see: the VIII Afro-Asiatic Congress of 2008 in Naples, the Colloquium on the Chadic Languages of Septem-ber 2011 in Paris, the Mega-Chad Conference scheduled for Septem-ber 2012 always in Naples, etc.), so some scholars thought to extent the Hausa network, created in the eighties in the framework of the Eu-ropean Community Erasmus Program among most of the European universities where Hausa and Sudanic languages were taught, to Hau-saland for a real linkage in the field of teaching and promoting these studies. These meetings should give also the opportunity to young scholars/students to show their researches and to publish in an interna-tional context evident to the Hausa community of researchers. In this respect it seems that this 3rd meeting was quite successful considering the great numbers of papers and the age of some contributors.
It was agreed at the Naples meeting that the 4th conference on Afri-can and European Perspectives in Hausa Linguistics, Literature and Culture will take place at Bayero University Kano in 2012
Arabic Language Influence in Africa
No full textDiffusion of Islam in Africa and Arabic loans in local language
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