Loanwords in Temne : a study of the sources and processes of lexical borrowing in a Sierra Leonean language

Loanwords from other African as well as non-African languages form a substantial part of the Temne lexicon. Despite the importance of loanwords in historical and comparative linguistics however, the study of loanwords in African languages has received inadequate attention in the past, and there has...

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Main Author: Turay, Abdul Karim
Published: SOAS, University of London 1971
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.758828