"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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pascal J. Kishindo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nordic Africa Research Network 2002-06-01
Series:Nordic Journal of African Studies
Subjects:
Online Access:https://www.njas.fi/njas/article/view/356