Education-induced borrowing in Tanzania: the penetration of Swahili nouns into Maa (Maasai) and Hadzane (Hadzabe)

Lusekelo, Amani

doi:10.1080/10228195.2016.1255242

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“…Mapunda with Rosendal presented cases of language change associated with additive and substitutive borrowing in Chingoni (MAPUNDA -ROSENDAL 2015), while Lusekelo presented additive and substitutive borrowing in languages of Tanzania like Hadzabe, Maasai, Ruhaya etc. (LUSEKELO 2017a(LUSEKELO , 2017b. This article concluded from the data obtained from kinship terms, modern world, and modern housing as found in western dialects of Datooga.…”

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Adaptation of Sukuma Loanwords in the Western Dialects of Datooga (Taturu) and its Dialectological Implications

Lusekelo

2019

Ethnologia Actualis

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The exchange of linguistic materials between languages which come into contact is indeed reciprocal. The previous accounts of the outcome of contact between Datooga and Sukuma was skewed towards impact of Datooga on Sukuma. Based on ethnolinguistic vitality approach, the Datooga tend to reveal solidarity-related social identity by acquiring their language as a mother tongue. They also reveal prestige-related social identity by acquiring Sukuma language which is the prestigious lingua franca of the Itumba area in Igunga District. Moreover, the Datooga envisaged mechanisms to either isolate out-group members using their ethnonyms. Based on a list of 250 loanwords, this paper highlights the substitutive borrowing of kinship terms and additive borrowing of agricultural terms. The Sukuma loanwords penetrate into the Datooga lexicon.

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confidence: 87%

Adaptation of Sukuma Loanwords in the Western Dialects of Datooga (Taturu) and its Dialectological Implications

Lusekelo

2019

Ethnologia Actualis

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“…Between 40-60% of respondents either did not know or did not believe Haine had supernatural abilities such as the ability to know what people are feeling. For other Hadza, Haine had similar characteristics as the Judeo-Christian god, including a focus on human moral concerns and, indeed, recent studies of the Hadza language report that some Hadzane speakers extend the name 'Haine' to refer to the Christian god (Lusekelo, 2017). The discrepancies between prior and later surveys on Hadza belief in god probably reflects the increasing efforts of Christian missionaries in the region.…”

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Do religious and market-based institutions promote cooperation in Hadza hunter-gatherers?

Stagnaro

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Apicella

2022

Religion, Brain & Behavior

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Humans' willingness to bear costs to benefit others is an evolutionary puzzle. Cultural group selection proposes a possible answer to this puzzle-cooperative norms and institutions proliferate due to group-level benefits. For instance, belief in knowledgeable, moralizing deities is theorized to decrease selfishness and favoritism through threat of supernatural punishment. Similarly, norms of fairness and cooperation are theorized to have coevolved with engagement in markets, which necessitate anonymous exchanges. We investigate these theories among the Tanzanian Hadza who, until recently, have had minimal exposure to markets or major world religions. Engagement with Western tourists, village markets and Christian missionaries is increasingly leading researchers to ask how such interactions have affected cooperative behavior. We interviewed 172 Hadza from 15 camps varying in market proximity, and measured cooperative decision-making using economic games. We find that exposure to missionaries is associated with increased belief in a knowledgeable and punitive deity, with mixed evidence that these beliefs, in turn, affect game play. In contrast, we find some evidence that those living in market-adjacent regions exhibit less ingroup favoritism when cooperating. These results support the claim that market-norms, and to some degree religious beliefs, facilitate greater cooperation and fairness in social interactions.

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“…Several studies have been done from other angles pertinent to the naming system in the world as in Asheli (2017), Mhute, (2016), Mberwa & Tibategeza (2022), Rubanza (2000), Massinen (2023), Abubakari (2020) to mention just but a few. One of the recent documents on the naming system is personal names (Lusekelo, 2015). Lusekelo provided a study in Hadzabe pertinent to personal names, and he argued that personal names are meaningful because they bear important cultural contents whose reading provides direct interpretation and understanding of central substances of cultures.…”

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A Sociolinguistics analysis on Sukuma Hen names

Simon

2023

EAJHSS

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The paper analyses Hen naming system among the Sukuma speech community of Tanzania. Most literature has concentrated on personal, cow, dog, and tree names but not Hen names despite their socio-cultural significance. paper that accounts for Sukuma Hen names and their associated meaning under the Cognitive Grammar Theory. The theory that refers to the meaning of a word (name) belongs to conceptualizations. The researcher used snowball sampling to get six participants and they were selected purposively including, three Hen keepers and three traditional healers from Njingani village of Geita rural district in Tanzania. Unstructured interviews and focus group discussions were the instruments for data collection. The study found eight Hen names in Sukuma speech community and the associated reasons for their names. These are Jomo, Sagala, and Holasi ''for appearance''; Shingamagaji, 'for beliefs'; Nzoma ‘for color’, kaMende, Mbuni, and Mhando ‘for body size’ From this base, the color, beliefs, and physical appearance determine Hen names in Sukuma speech community. It was concluded that Hen names in the Sukuma speech community are meaningful and they connotate function in accordance with conceptualizations ground. The paper recommended that there is a need to conduct a study on the names and the associated factors for Hens resulted from Hen breeding as the result of mixed color, behavior, size, and structure.

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Education-induced borrowing in Tanzania: the penetration of Swahili nouns into Maa (Maasai) and Hadzane (Hadzabe)

Cited by 9 publications

References 16 publications

Adaptation of Sukuma Loanwords in the Western Dialects of Datooga (Taturu) and its Dialectological Implications

Adaptation of Sukuma Loanwords in the Western Dialects of Datooga (Taturu) and its Dialectological Implications

Do religious and market-based institutions promote cooperation in Hadza hunter-gatherers?

A Sociolinguistics analysis on Sukuma Hen names

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