Kamus ta Rutan Nubi

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Shuichiro Nakao, Dr.
Associate Professor at Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University, Japan
Email: s.nakao.hmt[AT]osaka-u.ac.jp (change [AT] to @)

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Annotated bibliography on Nubi

Cook, Albert Ruskin (1905) Dinka and Nubi Vocabularies. Manuscript. Makerere University Library (Access number: AR/MAK/97/7, erroneously titled “Dinka Vocabulary, 1956”).

The first vocabulary of Nubi, presented with Dinka (Bor dialect) and Egyptian Cairene Arabic. During 1905-1906, the author was traveling from Kampala, where he had established Mulago Hospital, to the colonial headquarters at Mongalla in South Sudan (near modern Juba). On his way he collected these Nubi vocabularies.

Heine, Bernd (1982) The Nubi Language of Kibera: An Arabic Creole. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.

The first published grammar of Nubi by a famous linguist. His volume is a part of the series Language and Dialect Atlas of Kenya, in which the same author provides grammatical sketches of many under-described non-Bantu languages of Kenya.

Jenkins, E. Vaughan (1909) An English-Arabic Vocabulary with Grammar & Phrases (Representing the Language as Spoken by the Uganda Sudanese in the Uganda and British East Africa Protectorates). Kampala: The Uganda Company.

The first published vocabulary of Nubi by a British soldier. This vocabulary was analyzed by the following article: Kaye, A. S. & M. Tosco (1993) “Early East African Pidgin Arabic”, Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika 14: 269–305.

Khamis, Cornelia (1994) Mehrsprachigkeit bei den Nubi Das Sprachvernalten viersprachig aufwachsender Vorschul- und Schulkinder in Bombo/Uganda. Münster, Hamburg: LIT.

About multilingualism among the Nubi community in Bombo, Uganda. In German.

Luffin, Xavier (2004) Kinubi Texts. München: Lincom.

A collection of Nubi narrative texts from Bombo, Kibera, and Mombasa.

Luffin, Xavier (2005) Un créole arabe: le kinubi de Mombasa, Kenya. München: Lincom.

A large, comprehensive Nubi grammar written in French. The author focuses on the Nubi community in Mombasa, Kenya.

Meldon, J. A. (1913) English Arabic Dictionary of Words and Phrases Used by the Sudanese in Uganda. Manuscript. University of London, SOAS (Access number: MS.53704).

An early vocabulary of Nubi, or rather a Sudanese Arabic variety, spoken by early Nubi soldiers of Uganda Rifles. The author was stationed at Gondokoro, one of the oldest town in Jubek State (South Sudan) and once the northernmost outpost of the Uganda Protectorate until the early 20th century. The same author has written an interesting ethnographic report: “Notes on the Sudanese in Uganda”, Journal of the Royal African Society 7 (1908): 123–146.

Nhial, A. A. J. (1975) “Ki-Nubi and Juba Arabic: A Comparative Study”, in S. Ḥ. Ḥurreiz & H. Bell (eds.) 81–93.

The first linguistic report on Nubi and Juba Arabic by a South Sudanese scholar. Until then, almost nothing was known about the linguistic natures of these Arabic creoles.

Owen, H. B. & G. J. Keane. (1915) An Abbreviated Vocabulary in Hindustani, Luganda, Lunyoro, Swahili, Nubi: Designed for the Use of the Uganda Medical Service. Bukalasa: White Fathers’ Printing Press.

Multilingual vocabulary for medical purposes. Extensively analyzed by the following article: Avram, A. A. (2015) “An Early Nubi Vocabulary”, Romano-Arabica 15: 155–192.

Owens, Jonathan (1977) Aspects of Nubi Grammar. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, the University of London.

The first comprehensive grammar of Nubi. The same author has written numerous academic articles on Nubi, Nigerian Arabic, as well as Old Arabic predating the Islamic expansion.

Wellens, Ineke (2005) The Nubi Language of Uganda: An Arabic Creole in Africa (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 45). Leiden: Brill.

A large, comprehensive Nubi grammar. The author focuses on the Nubi community in Buganda, with some notes on northern (West Nile) Nubi.

Wtterwulghe, G.-F. (1899) Vocabulaire à l’usage des fonctionnaires se rendant dans les Territoire du district de l’Uele et de l’Enclave Redjaf-Lado. Bruxelles.

An interesting vocabulary of Bangala, Zande, Mangbetu, and Arabic as spoken in the Lado Enclave, now parts of West Nile (Uganda) and Juba area (South Sudan). The Arabic variety shares a few isoglosses with modern Nubi. This is also the first vocabulary of Bangala, an old variety of modern Lingala.