"Flogging a Dead Cow?"
The paper explores how Chingoni, a language of the conquering Ngoni, lost out to Chitumbuka and Chichewa, the languages of the conquered Tumbuka and Chewa respectively, as a language of everyday communication to the extent of being moribund. Since language is usually considered to be a marker of id...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nordic Africa Research Network
2002-06-01
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Series: | Nordic Journal of African Studies |
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Online Access: | https://www.njas.fi/njas/article/view/356 |