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A Language for the World : The Standardization of Swahili.

Robinson, Morgan J.
2022
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Title
A Language for the World : The Standardization of Swahili.
Author
Robinson, Morgan J.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780821447819
9780821424957
Published
Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2022.
Copyright
©2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (320 pages).
Dewey Decimal Classification
496.392
Summary
Based on extensive archival research, this intellectual history of Standard Swahili--a dialect of the Swahili language written in the Latin alphabet--argues that attention to the intertwined processes of codification from 1864 to 1964 lends new perspectives on history, colonialism, time, and cultural representation in East Africa and beyond.
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Series
New African Histories Series
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Cover Page
New African Histories
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1: "Note-Books and Slowly Accumulating Vocabularies"
2: Msimulizi and the Cultivation of the Upelekwa
3: German Zeit and Swahili Time
4: Interlocutors in Interterritorial Codification
5: The East African Literature Bureau: Creating Creativity in Standard Swahili
6: Rumblings of Unanticipated Demand
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

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