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Language and Identity among marginal people in East Africa

Mous, Maarten
2017
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978-88-8303-821-1
http://hdl.handle.net/10077/14301
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978-88-8303-822-8
Abstract
Language is one of the strongest expressions of group identity. Many communities in East Africa are multilingual and for some of the smaller communities this leads to language loss and for others to language revival. The article shows how different groups in similar circumstances opt for different linguistic behaviour and how these choices can swiftly change in the light of external circumstances including economic need. The article examines the linguistic attitude of groups such as the Yaaku, Aasa, Akiek, Ma’á/Mbugu from East Africa and compares them among each other and with other former hunter-gatherers such as the Bakola/Bagyele pygmies in Cameroon and the agricultural Mbugwe from Tanzania who are equally small in numbers.
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  • Ethnic identity

  • language loss

  • dorobo

  • East Africa

  • hunter-gatherers

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EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
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Maarten Mous, "Language and Identity among marginal people in East Africa", in: "Cultural and Linguistic Transition explored. Proceedings of the ATrA closing workshop Trieste, May 25-26, 2016", Ilaria Micheli (ed.), Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2017, pp. 218-233
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