Sheng: Peer language, Swahili dialect or emerging Creole?
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Simulating Creole and Dialect Formation
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of African Cultural Studies
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1369-6815,1469-9346
DOI: 10.1080/1369681022000042637