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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | The primary dialects of Swahill: an approach to a linguistic-geographical survey: part I |
Author: | Hill, Trevor |
Year: | 1973 |
Periodical: | Kiswahili |
Volume: | 43 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 7-18 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | East Africa |
Subjects: | Swahili language dialects |
Abstract: | Discussion of some general principles of dialect geography, witch illustrations from the phonology of the Swahili dialects - some phonological patterns of distribution, details of isogloss distribution, anomalous distributions, doublets, the phonetic value of C.Sw., and the Arabic element, Includes brief notes and tentative suggestions for methods of data collection and analysis. Fig., notes, map. |