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Speaking of Tradition: How the Ngoni Talk about Value Maintenance and Change
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Rosendal, Tove – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
This paper presents results from an ethnographically informed study based on focus group discussions where rural Ngoni farmers in the southern highlands of Tanzania voice their ideas about their cultural heritage, with a special focus on attitudes towards Ngoni culture and cultural changes. With a model based on Ehala [2009. "Connecting the…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, African Languages, Agricultural Occupations, Cultural Background
Is the Tanzanian Ngoni Language Threatened? A Survey of Lexical Borrowing from Swahili
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Rosendal, Tove; Mapunda, Gastor – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
Tanzania's post-independence language policy has promoted Swahili as a means of achieving national and linguistic unity. This policy has affected the Ngoni language in south-western Tanzania. Today, Swahili has permeated communication all over Tanzania, even in rural and remote areas. This paper discusses lexical borrowing and especially borrowing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Language Skill Attrition, Language Maintenance
Codeswitching and the Exclusivity of Social Identities: Some Data from Campus Kiswahili.
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Blommaert, Jan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1992
The macro-dimension of code switching is examined as observed in a sociolect of Swahili used by academic staff from the University of Dar es Salaam. It is argued that the specific sociohistoric background of Tanzanian society accounts for the social valency of Campus Kiswahili. (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), College Faculty, Cultural Context, Dialects