Kinyarwanda and Kirundi: On Colonial Divisions, Discourses of National Belonging, and Language Boundaries

The development of the Bantu languages Kinyarwanda and Kirundi is entangled within the colonial histories of Rwanda and Burundi, first under German and then Belgian rule. From the turn of the twentieth century on, missionaries compiled grammars and dictionaries of the two mutually intelligible lang...

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Main Author: Nico Nassenstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Hradec Králové 2019-07-01
Series:Modern Africa
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Online Access:https://journals.uhk.cz/modernafrica/article/view/184
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