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Morgan J. Robinson

A Language for the World - The Standardization of Swahili

English · Hardback

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Summary

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 cultural representation in East Africa and beyond.

Product details

Authors	Morgan J. Robinson
Publisher	University of ohio press

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	30.11.2022

EAN	9780821424940
ISBN	978-0-8214-2494-0
No. of pages	312
Series	New African Histories
Subject	Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

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