Bongor Arabic
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Arabic-based creole language spoken in Chad
| Bongor Arabic | |
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| Native to | Chad |
Arabic-based creole
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| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | bong1302 |
Bongor Arabic is an Arabic-based creole language that serves as a lingua franca in and around the town of Bongor, Chad.[1][2] It is a direct descendant of Turku Arabic, a former lingua franca of Chad.[2]
These are some of the main distinctive features of Bongor Arabic:[3]
- long vowels are replaced by short stressed vowels.
- /x/ tends to be replaced by /k/.
- /f/ tends to be replaced by /p/.
- /ʕ/ is lost.
- no gender distinction.
- no definite article (al-/il-).
- no personal affixes on verbs.
- the root system typical to Arabic and other Semitic languages is no longer productive.
Vocabulary
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bongor Arabic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 1 2 3 4 Manfredi, Stefano; Lucas, Christopher (2019). Arabic and Contact-induced Change. Language Science Press. pp. 323–325. ISBN 9783961102518.
- ↑ Luffin, Xavier (2013). "Some new information about Bongor Arabic". In Lafkioui, Mena (ed.). African Arabic: Approaches to Dialectology. Berlin: De Gruyter. p. 162. doi:10.1515/9783110292343. ISBN 9783110292343. ISSN 1861-4302.
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