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A Language for the World The Standardization of Swahili.

Based on extensive archival research, this intellectual history of Standard Swahili--a dialect of the Swahili language written in the Latin alphabet--argues that attention to the intertwined processes of codification from 1864 to 1964 lends new perspectives on history, colonialism, time, and cultura...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Robinson, Morgan J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2022.
Colección:New African Histories Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover Page -- New African Histories -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1: "Note-Books and Slowly Accumulating Vocabularies" -- 2: Msimulizi and the Cultivation of the Upelekwa -- 3: German Zeit and Swahili Time -- 4: Interlocutors in Interterritorial Codification -- 5: The East African Literature Bureau: Creating Creativity in Standard Swahili -- 6: Rumblings of Unanticipated Demand -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index 
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