The face of contact: a model of a cultural and linguistic frontier in early eastern Uganda

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Title:	The face of contact: a model of a cultural and linguistic frontier in early eastern Uganda
Author:	Cohen, David William
Book title:	Nilotic studies: proceedings of the international symposium on languages and history of the Nilotic peoples, Cologne, January 4-6, 1982 Dl. 2
Year:	1983
Pages:	339-355
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Uganda
Subjects:	acculturation sociolinguistics
Abstract:	An essential element in carrying historical linguistic analysis to more historical reconstruction is the comprehension of the 'frontier zones' of historic speech (and, by analogy, cultural) communities. In the region of northern Busoga, situated within the linguistic 'shatter-belt' of eastern and north-eastern Uganda, and historically one of the areas in which Nilotic Luo speakers most recently 'exchanged' their language for domination of the Bantuspeaking populations among whom they settled, a model of such a zone may be constructed. - Maps, notes, ref.