caa a22 4500 378914871 CHVBK 20180305123550.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041124xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/jall.2004.25.2.111 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/jall.2004.25.2.111 KiKAR: a Swahili variety in Kenya's colonial army [Elektronische Daten] [Mungai Mutonya, Timothy H. Parsons] The paper discusses attitudes, identity construction, agents of linguistic change, and the outcome of dense language contact in Kenya's colonial army during the early decades of the twentieth century. The growth and development of a simplified Swahili variety in the Kenyan battalions of the King's African Rifles (KAR) during the inter-war period was influenced by the European officers' attitude towards Africans and their languages, the military's overarching desire to construct a distinct identity in the colony, and the diverse ethnolinguistic background of African soldiers. While the colonial military provided the ethnographic settings in which the new Swahili variety emerged, it was the African soldiers who were the principal agents in the restructuring and maintenance of KiKAR. The paper further illustrates the structural and lexical simplification of KiKAR based on data contained in KAR's language teaching manual: Newell's (1933) Notes on Ki-Swahili as Spoken by the K.A.R. KiKAR provides a rare glimpse into the outcome of an early contact situation involving diverse African languages and English during Swahili's pre-standardization era. © Walter de Gruyter Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure nationallicence Phonetics, phonology, prosody nationallicence Mutonya Mungai African and Afro-American Studies. aut Parsons Timothy H. Washington University in St. Louis. aut Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Walter de Gruyter 25/2(2004-11-24), 111-125 0167-6164 25:2<111 2004 25 jall https://doi.org/10.1515/jall.2004.25.2.111 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/jall.2004.25.2.111 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mutonya Mungai African and Afro-American Studies aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Parsons Timothy H. Washington University in St. Louis aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Walter de Gruyter 25/2(2004-11-24), 111-125 0167-6164 25:2<111 2004 25 jall CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter