The Dialects of the Zanzibar Sultanate

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ID2806687
AuthorsW H Ingrams (corresponding author)
Year1924
Volume3
Issue3
Pages533-550
Publication date1924-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0041977x00148578
OpenAlexW2167811330
LanguageEN
Citations received11

The language of Zanzibar par excellence is Swahili, and Zanzibar may be said to be the home of this language, not in the sense that its oldest form is spoken there, but because the Zanzibar dialect has come to be known best, owing to the writings of such men as Steere, Madan, Sacleux, and, to some extent, Krapf, though his dictionary is mainly devoted to the Mombasa dialect. Also in the days of the opening up of Africa, explorers and traders generally fixed up their caravans in Zanzibar, and these porters and soldiers journeyed into the far interior, some of them remaining there and thus making Swahili a lingua franca understood, as Steere says, along the coasts of Madagascar and Arabia, and in Central or inter-Tropical Africa, as well as by the Seedees (Sidis) in India

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Bantu languages · Ethnology · Excellence · Geography · Humanities · Lingua franca · Linguistics · Political science · Swahili · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law

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