Manual of Romance Languages in Africa

Published by De Gruyter 2024

Manual of Romance Languages in Africa

Edited by: Ursula Reutner

Volume 32 in the series Manuals of Romance Linguistics

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110628869

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About this book

With more than two thousand languages spread over its territory, multilingualism is a common reality in Africa. The main official languages of most African countries are Indo-European, in many instances Romance. As they were primarily brought to Africa in the era of colonization, the areas discussed in this volume are thirty-five states that were once ruled by Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, or Spain, and the African regions still belonging to three of them. Twenty-six states are presented in relation to French, four to Italian, six to Portuguese, and two to Spanish. They are considered in separate chapters according to their sociolinguistic situation, linguistic history, external language policy, linguistic characteristics, and internal language policy. The result is a comprehensive overview of the Romance languages in modern-day Africa. It follows a coherent structure, offers linguistic and sociolinguistic information, and illustrates language contact situations, power relations, as well as the cross-fertilization and mutual enrichment emerging from the interplay of languages and cultures in Africa.

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Ursula Reutner, Passau University, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Manuals of Romance Linguistics Günter Holtus and Fernando Sánchez-Miret Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
1 Introduction Ursula Reutner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Northern Africa
French
2 Algeria Karima Ait Dahmane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3 Morocco Fouzia Benzakour Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
4 Tunisia Lotfi Sayahi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Italian
5 Libya Lutz Edzard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Portuguese
6 Portugal: Madeira Aline Bazenga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Spanish
7 Spain: Canary Islands Dolores Corbella Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
8 Spain: Ceuta and Melilla Gérard Fernández Smith and Luis Escoriza Morera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Western Africa
French
9 Benin Moufoutaou Adjeran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
10 Burkina Faso Sabine Diao-Klaeger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
11 Côte d’Ivoire Akissi Béatrice Boutin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
12 Guinea Silke Jansen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
13 Mali Ingse Skattum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
14 Mauritania Catherine Taine-Cheikh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
15 Niger Oreste Floquet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
16 Senegal Ursula Reutner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
17 Togo Komlan Essizewa, Promise Dodzi Kpoglu and Margot van den Berg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	391
Portuguese
18 Cabo Verde Nélia Alexandre and Dominika Swolkien Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
19 Guinea-Bissau Nicolas Quint Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	447
Middle Africa
French
20 Cameroon Bernard Mulo Farenkia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	469
21 Central African Republic Guri Bordal Steien Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483
22 Chad Issa Djarangar Djta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	497
23 Congo-Brazzaville Jean-Alexis Mfoutou, Ursula Reutner and Philipp Heidepeter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	507
24 Congo-Kinshasa Julien Kilanga Musinde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	537
25 Gabon Claude Frey and Ursula Reutner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	551
Portuguese
26 Angola David Paul Gerards and Benjamin Meisnitzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	579
27 São Tomé and Príncipe Tjerk Hagemeijer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	609
Spanish
28 Equatorial Guinea John M. Lipski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	625
Eastern Africa
French
29 Burundi and Rwanda Gélase Nimbona and Anne Catherine Simon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	643
30 Djibouti Samatar Abdallah Doualeh and Bruno Maurer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	669
31 France: Réunion and Mayotte Gudrun Ledegen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	691
32 Madagascar and Comoros Ursula Reutner, Philipp Heidepeter and Marc Chalier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	717
33 Mauritius and Seychelles Guilhem Florigny, Elissa Pustka and Joëlle Perreau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	753
Italian
34 Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia Mauro Tosco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	783
Portuguese
35 Mozambique Gregório Domingos Firmino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	809
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Country Key Facts
36 Country Key Facts Ursula Reutner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	827
Language Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	841
Linguistic Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	849
General Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	855
Person Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	867

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Forschende in den den Gebieten Romanistik, Sprachkontaktforschung, Soziolinguistik
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 870
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
- Coloured Illustrations: 59
Keywords: Africa; Contact Linguistics; Linguistic Variation; Postcolonial Linguistics

eBook

Published: December 18, 2023
ISBN: 9783110628869

Hardcover

Published: December 18, 2023
ISBN: 9783110626100