The Oxford Guide to the Atlantic Languages of West Africa
Series: Oxford Guides to the World's Languages;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 November 2024
- ISBN 9780198736516
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages784 pages
- Size 280x222x50 mm
- Weight 2210 g
- Language English 552
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Short description:
This volume is the first book-length overview of the Atlantic languages, a small family of languages spoken mainly on the Atlantic coast of West Africa. It is an essential tool for linguists interested in the languages of West Africa, language history and classification, and typology and language contact more broadly.
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This volume presents the first book-length overview of the Atlantic languages, a small family of languages spoken mainly on the Atlantic coast of West Africa. Languages in this area have been used in diverse multilingual societies with intense language contact for the whole of their known history, and their genealogical relatedness and the impact of language contact on their lexicon and grammar have been widely debated.
The book is divided into four parts. The first provides an introduction to language ecologies in the area and includes two accounts of the genealogical classification of Atlantic languages. Chapters in the second part offer grammatical overviews of individual languages, including the most important non-Atlantic contact languages (Casamance Creole and Mandinka), while the third part explores Atlantic languages from a typological perspective, with chapters that explore formal and semantic aspects of their nominal classification systems, nominalization strategies, their rich system of verbal extensions, and the stem-initial consonant mutation that is attested in a subset of languages. The final part of the book investigates Atlantic languages in their social environments, including the creation of creole identities, secret languages, Ajami writing practices, language acquisition, the spread and use of Fula as a lingua franca, digital language practices, and language ideologies.
The volume is an essential tool for linguists interested in the languages of West Africa, language history and classification, patterns of language use in Atlantic societies, and typology and language contact more broadly.
Table of Contents:
Part I. Background and classification of the Atlantic languages
Language, land, and languaging in the Atlantic space
A genealogical classification of Atlantic languages
Genetically-motivated clusters within Atlantic
Part II. Individual languages and language clusters
Wolof
Fula
Casamance Creole
Mandinka
Bassari
Joola Fooñi
Joola Kujireray
Joola Keeraak
Baïnounk Gubëeher
Djifanghor Nyun (Baïnounk)
Baïnounk Gujaher
Balant (Ganja)
Sua
Nalu
Baga Mandori
Kisi
Bom-Kim
Part III. Atlantic languages from a comparative and typological perspective
Noun inflection and gender in Atlantic languages
Noun class semantics in Atlantic
Nominalization in Atlantic
Verbal extensions in Atlantic languages
Atlantic consonant mutation
Part IV. Atlantic languages in their multilingual environment
Creolization in Atlantic West Africa: The example of Sierra Leone
Ajami writing practices in Atlantic-speaking Africa
Secret languages in the Atlantic area
Multilingual children's language socialization in central Mali
The spread of Fula as lingua franca in Northern Cameroon: Social factors and linguistic outcomes
Digital language and new configurations of multilingualism: Writing in a Senegal-based discussion forum
Multilingual people and monolingual perceptions: Patterns of multilingualism in Essyl, Basse Casamance, Senegal
