Nubi
[aka Kinubi, Ki-Nubi, Kinúbi]Classification: Pidgin or Creole
·threatened
Classification: Pidgin or Creole
·threatened
Kinubi, Ki-Nubi, Kinúbi, Rután Núbi |
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Pidgin or Creole, Arabic based |
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Information from: “Promoting Documentation and Maintenance of Kinubi, a Minority Creole in Kenya (ELF grant abstract)” . Benson Oduor Ojwang (2008)
"Kinubi is spoken in Kenya by the Nubi linguistic minority of about 10,000 people."
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “Kinubi” (50-53 ch. 6) . Luffin, Xavier (2013) , Michaelis, Susanne Maria, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath, and Magnus Huber · Oxford University Press
Swahili
English
"... competition with English and Swahili may endanger the use of Kinubi, especially in big cities such as Mombasa and Nairobi, as it did in Tanzania, where it seems that Swahili has replaced Kinubi among the Nubi communities."
"Kinubi may be written in Latin script; some Nubi exchange letters and e-mails in their language or use it in the written administration of their cultural organizations, as in Mombasa, for instance. In Bombo (Uganda), Mustafer Khamisy writes poems in Kinubi and distributes them during Nubi cultural events."
"mainly in Uganda and in Kenya"