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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 1 October 2025
- ISBN 9781032618869
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages162 pages
- Size 198x129 mm
- Weight 300 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
Originally published in 1969, this book examines the factors which at different historical periods led people to use one language (Swahili) rather than another, or within a given period, to use a particular language in one set of circumstances.
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Originally published in 1969, this book examines the factors which at different historical periods led people to use one language (Swahili) rather than another, or within a given period, to use a particular language in one set of circumstances. The national language of Tanzania and much of East Africa, Swahili is unique among African languages in its verse literature, which dates back to the 18th Century and was written in the Arabic script. This book traces the remarkable expansion of Swahili, which was linked with the expansion of trace, missionary activities and the establishment of Colonial administrations and the development of education.
Review of original edition of Swahili:
‘…the author has made judicious use of primary sources in fashioning what will remain among the best historical studies of an African language.’ Anthony Okino Ojigbo, The Journal of Modern African Studies
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1. Language and Literature 2. Early History 3. The Diffusion Up-Country 4. The Colonial Period 5. ‘Standard’ Swahili 6. After Independence 7. Problems of a National Language.
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