An Introduction to the Study of African Languages
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A trade language must have sounds easily pronounced with approximate correctness, even by foreigners, and its grammatical forms, too, must be such as a foreigner can master without difficulty. Besides being easy, it must also be flexible and readily absorb foreign elements.
The Western Sudan possesses in Hausa a language admirably suited to answer this purpose. Its struc- ture is Hamitic, though the people who speak it are not pure Hamites, but mongrels and slaves with a strong infusion of negr...o blood. As spoken by them, the language has got rid of all difficult sounds and combinations of sounds. This does not make it a Sudan language, it has neither monosyllabic roots nor pitch accent; but the negro can learn it with comparative ease, the Arab and the European can do the same. As the Hausa are Muhammadans, the language has assimilated a large number of Arabic words, especially religious terms and technical ex- pressions connected with the arts of life. It has adapted to itself the Arabic character, and has thus become for millions of people in the Western Sudan an excellent medium of oral and written intercourse.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
A trade language must have sounds easily pronounced with approximate correctness, even by foreigners, and its grammatical forms, too, must be such as a foreigner can master without difficulty. Besides being easy, it must also be flexible and readily absorb foreign elements.
The Western Sudan possesses in Hausa a language admirably suited to answer this purpose. Its struc- ture is Hamitic, though the people who speak it are not pure Hamites, but mongrels and slaves with a strong infusion of negr...o blood. As spoken by them, the language has got rid of all difficult sounds and combinations of sounds. This does not make it a Sudan language, it has neither monosyllabic roots nor pitch accent; but the negro can learn it with comparative ease, the Arab and the European can do the same. As the Hausa are Muhammadans, the language has assimilated a large number of Arabic words, especially religious terms and technical ex- pressions connected with the arts of life. It has adapted to itself the Arabic character, and has thus become for millions of people in the Western Sudan an excellent medium of oral and written intercourse.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Meinhof, Carl, 1857-1944 to read onlineMoreLess
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