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R. T. Yuzmukhametov PERSIAN LEXICAL LOANWORDS IN SWAHILI // I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN. 2020. № 3(108). p. 125-132
Author(s):
R. T. Yuzmukhametov
Index of UDK:
811.432.875:811.222.1'373.613
Index of DOI:
10.37972/chgpu.2020.108.3.014
Name of article:
PERSIAN LEXICAL LOANWORDS IN SWAHILI
Keywords:
Persian borrowings, lexical borrowings, shirazi, Swahili
Abstracts:
The article is devoted to the study of Persian lexical borrowings in Swahili. Swahili is the official language of a number of states in East Africa; these are Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, the Comoros and others. These countries can be considered the homeland of Swahili.
The relevance of the study is determined by interest in the distribution of Persian borrowed vocabulary in East Africa, along with interest in the issue of the history of the emergence of Muslim culture in East Africa. Despite the fact that Arabic borrowings penetrated the Bantu languages simultaneously with Persian words, this article exclusively discusses Persian words in order to study in more detail the thematic and structural groups of Persian borrowings, phonetic, morphological and lexical-semantic changes in them. The methodological and theoretical framework for this study was determined by works of the domestic and foreign linguists and africanists who studied the history of Swahili, its structural and lexical composition.
The material for the study was taken from “Swahili-Russian Dictionary” (ed. N. V. Gromova).
The lexical composition of Swahili contains a significant amount of foreign lexical borrowings, which reflects different periods of the history of colonization of East Africa. There are about thirty Persian words in Swahili. They are represented mainly by specific words denoting various everyday concepts, and there are several abstract words related to religion and the social way of life. On the morphological, phonological, and lexical-semantic plane, signs of a deep assimilation of Iranisms by the recipient language, Bantu, were found.
The contact details of authors:
Юзмухаметов Рамиль Тагирович – кандидат филологических наук, доцент кафедры востоковедения, африканистики и исламоведения Института международных отношений Казанского (Приволжского) федерального университета, г. Казань, Россия; e-mail: ramil.yuzmukhametov@mail.ru
