Movatterモバイル変換

Bongor Arabic

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Arabic-based creole language spoken in Chad

Bongor Arabic
Native to	Chad
Language family	Arabic-based creole Turku Arabic Bongor Arabic
Early form	Bimbashi Arabic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	`bong1302`

Bongor Arabic is anArabic-basedcreole language that serves as alingua franca in and around the town ofBongor,Chad.^[1]^[2] It is a direct descendant ofTurku Arabic, a former lingua franca ofChad.^[2]

These are some of the main distinctive features of Bongor Arabic:^[3]

long vowels are replaced byshort stressed vowels.
/x/ tends to be replaced by /k/.
/f/ tends to be replaced by /p/.
/ʕ/ is lost.
nogender distinction.
nodefinite article (al-/il-).
no personal affixes on verbs.
theroot system typical toArabic and otherSemitic languages is no longer productive.

^Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017)."Bongor Arabic".Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
^^a ^b ^c ^dManfredi, Stefano; Lucas, Christopher (2019).Arabic and Contact-induced Change. Language Science Press. pp. 323–325.ISBN 9783961102518.
^Lafkioui, Mena (2013).African Arabic: Approaches to Dialectology. Germany: De Gruyter. p. 162.ISBN 9783110292343.

Arabic language

Overviews

Letters

Pre-Islamic

Literary

Modern
spoken

Pre-Hilalian	Andalusi Sicilian Maltese Australian Cottenera Gozitan Qormi Żejtun Żurrieqi Urban Tunis (North-Eastern Tunisian) Village Eastern Sahili (Sahel) Sfaxian Jijel (Lesser Kabylia) Western Traras-Msirda Jebli (Mountain) Judeo-Maghrebi Judeo-Moroccan Judeo-Tripolitanian Judeo-Tunisian
Hilalian	Central Hilal Algerian koiné Judeo-Algerian Algerian Saharan Eastern Algerian Eastern Hilal Tunisian koiné Maqil Fessi Hassaniya Nemadi Moroccan koiné Eastern Western Western Algerian Sulaym Libyan koiné Western Egyptian Bedawi