Mchango Wajamii Yawaesha Katika Kuendeleza Lugha na Fasihi ya Kiswahili
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Date
2016-07
Authors
Ngugi, Pamela Yalwala
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CHEMCHEMI INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Abstract
The Asian people arrived in Africa more than one hundred years ago from Pakistan
and India. Many of them are the children of the generations that entered Kenya at the
beginning of the twentieth century. They came in as merchants from Gujarati, railway
workers from Punjabi and clerks from Goa. When they arrived in Kenya, they found
very few Africans who understood English. So they had to use Kiswahili, a language
which by then had become largely a means of communication with Africans, who
were mostly domestic servants and workers in their stores. Due to this interaction,
this community has contributed significantly to the language repertoire of Kenya at
various levels including sociolinguistic languagsand literature. The aim of this article
is to highlight the contribution of the Asian community in the field of sociolinguists,
language and literature to the Kenyan community and East Africa at large.
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Keywords
Contribution, sociolinguists, language, literature
Citation
Ngugi, P. Y. (2016). MCHANGO WA JAMII YA WAESHA KATIKA KUENDELEZA LUGHA NA FASIHI YA KISWAHILI. Chemchemi International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 10(2).