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Swahili proverbs from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Title
- Swahili proverbs from the Democratic Republic of the Congo / Nico Nassenstein.
- Author
- Nassenstein, Nico
- Publication
- Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, [2022]
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- Description
- 136 pages : color maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The idea for the present book first arose out of a fascination for some Kivu Swahili proverbs that came up during a recording session on Kivu Swahili sentences with my Congolese colleague Paulin Baraka Bose one day in Kampala (Uganda). The present editor was fascinated by their variability and the fact that proverbs could apparently easily be transferred by calquing them from Kinyabwisha, Mashi, and other languages. The fact that Swahili speakers' use of proverbs from the Congo was thus characterized by fluidity and flexibility in their realization, dependent upon their linguistic backgrounds, trajectories, and creativity encouraged the editor to start collecting proverbs whenever working on Congo Swahili varieties. All 400 proverbs presented here are part of this collection, numbering 100 proverbs from each Congo Swahili regiolect (Kivu, which comprises Goma and Bukavu Swahili; Bunia Swahili/Ituri Kingwana; Kisangani Swahili; Lubumbashi Swahili/Katanga Swahili), are extracted from discussions and recording sessions with the speakers themselves, all of whom are mentioned as having provided the editor with the proverbs (see the acknowledgments). The mixture of well-known and well-documented proverbs with very personal and spontaneous ones is intended to show the fluidity of this pool of orature. The purpose of the present book, besides the personal interest in the rich orature exemplified by proverbs, is to serve as a dialectological introduction which, as a first compilation, offers insights into the grammatical variability of Congo Swahili regiolects. So far, the dialectological classification of Congo Swahili has often been neglected, and established dialectological or dialectometric models successfully applied to the East African coast (for the most influential works, see Guarisma & Möhlig 1980, Möhlig 1983, 1986) seem to be of lesser benefit in the classification of Swahili regiolects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Series Statement
- Verbal art and documentary literature in African languages ; volume 44 = Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischen Sprachen ; Band 44
- Uniform Title
- Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischen Sprachen ; Bd. 44.
- Alternative Title
- Swahili proverbs from the Dem. Republic of the Congo
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-133) and index.
- Contents
- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Collecting proverbs in the Swahili-speaking parts of Africa -- Approaches to variation and classification in Congo Swahili -- Orature from the different Swahili-speaking areas from the DR Congo -- About this collection -- Kivu Swahili proverbs -- Bunia Swahili, lturi Kingwana proverbs -- Kisangani Swahili proverbs -- Lubumbashi, Katanga Swahili proverbs -- References -- Index of proverbs.
- Call Number
- ReCAP 22-10668
- ISBN
- 9783896457448
- 3896457446
- OCLC
- 1327730515
- Author
- Nassenstein, Nico, author.
- Title
- Swahili proverbs from the Democratic Republic of the Congo / Nico Nassenstein.
- Publisher
- Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, [2022]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Verbal art and documentary literature in African languages ; volume 44 = Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischen Sprachen ; Band 44Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischen Sprachen ; Bd. 44.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-133) and index.
- Other Title
- Swahili proverbs from the Dem. Republic of the Congo
- Research Call Number
- ReCAP 22-10668