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Juba Arabic (expanded pidgin) also called Arabic Sudanese Creole

Juba Arabic (expanded pidgin) also called Arabic Sudanese Creole. Billy Evalt. Juba Arabic. Population: 20,000 first language speakers 44,000 second language speakers. Related to KiNubi: Same parent pidgin

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Juba Arabic (expanded pidgin) also called Arabic Sudanese Creole

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  1. Juba Arabic(expanded pidgin)also calledArabic Sudanese Creole Billy Evalt

  2. Juba Arabic • Population: 20,000 first language speakers 44,000 second language speakers. • Related to KiNubi: Same parent pidgin • Wide variety in JA yet all JA speakers are mutually intelligible while being, for the most part, mutually unintelligible with Sudanese Arabic. • Most Sudanese fluent in 2 or more languages. • JA spoken mostly as a first language or a lingua franca in southern Sudan.

  3. Sudan

  4. Sociolinguistic History • Formed in latter half of 19th century as a trade language between trading camps. • Descendents of Sudanese soldiers in the Egyptian army. • Egyptian officers in charge of Sudanese soldiers and slaves. • Arabic is the language of the Qur’an. • Possible substrate languages: Bari, Dinka, Nuer, and Shillah.

  5. Equatoria

  6. Linguistic Features • SVO Language • Morphologically simpler than Sudanese Colloquial Arabic. Lack of number marking, gender suffix, and pronominal suffix. • JA only marked for plural with final stressed “a” while SCA marks for dual and plural • JA Subject and object pronouns identical but possessive is distinct while Arabic object and possessive enclitics are identical but subject pronoun is distinct • JA uses [fi] to mean both “to” or “at” while SCA uses [fi] for “at” and [le] for “to”

  7. Linguistic Features Continued • JA phonologically simplified as well compared to SCA • Similar vowel inventory, three pairs of vowels, short and long. • [i] and [e], [u] and [o], [а] and [ә] • No stressed consonants in JA • Consonant types are CV and CVC • Vowel harmony within a word • Does not include a word final vowel • Words can have only front vowels [i] and [e] or back vowels [u] and [o] while [а] occurs in both contexts

  8. Decreolization • Current influence of MSA and SCA increasing • Lending to arguments against status as a creole or a pidgin • Media and travel/trade influx • Some groups want to keep JA as a symbol of Southern Sudanese nationality

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