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Article: Language Change and National Integration: Rural Migrants in Khartoum.
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- April 1, 1994
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By Catherine Miller and Al-Amin Abu-Manga. Khartoum: Khartoum University Press, 1992. Pp. xi + 208.
More than a hundred languages are currently spoken in the Sudan. When it received its independence in 1956, Arabic was declared the sole official language. The few educated southern Sudanese were, however, English-speaking (as a second language), whereas they spoke as their mother tongue a variety of Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Kordofanian languages (Dinka, Nuer, Shilluk, Bari, Moru, Zande, etc.). As a direct result of the first Sudanese civil war (1955-72), English was recognized as the main language of the South on a par with Arabic. This book is the first to deal with ...