Tabaq: In a State of Flux
Tabaq: In a State of Flux
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Tabaq:处于不断变化的状态
DOI:
10.5070/d61110038
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发表时间:
2014
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通讯作者:
B. Hellwig
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作者:
B. Hellwig
Tabaq – or t̪àànɪ̀ nfɛ̀ɛ̀ [t̪àànɪ̀ mbɛ̀ɛ]̀, as is the emic expression – is one of several languages of the Kordofan Nubian language group.1 It is the ancestral language of roughly 1800 people who call themselves t̪àànɪ́ɪ,̀ sg.: t̪àànɪ́d̪ʊ,̀ and who speak the language to varying degrees of fluency. Their original settlement is in the north-western area of the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, an area they call t̪ààŋ or t̪àànɪ̀ nkùld̪ʊ́ʊ̀ [t̪àànɪ̀ ŋgùld̪ʊ́ʊ]̀, i.e. ‘mountain of the Tabaq people’ (see fig. 1). During the past decades, virtually all Tabaq people have left their homeland and moved to different parts of the country. Nowadays we find groups of varying sizes not only in their homeland and Dillinj, but also in El Obeid, Kosti/Rabak, Khartoum, Gedaref, and Port Sudan.2 Many Tabaq people who are nowadays living in the Nuba Mountains are homecomers, i.e., they have spent considerable time away from Tabaq before returning there. Their close contact with the outside Arab world has left its cultural traces, possibly in the way they now construct their compounds and in the variety of food preparation. Their closest neighbors in former times lived at Kakada Mountain – called kɛ́ɛ́d̪ɛ́ nkùld̪ʊ́ʊ̀ [kɛ́ɛ́d̪ɛ́ ŋgùld̪ʊ́ʊ]̀ by the Tabaq – to the north of the Tabaq area. It is not known which language the Kakada people spoke at that time. By now, they have left their land and have merged with the Tabaq people, speaking Tabaq. The events that led to the integration of the two groups are part of Tabaq
DOI:
10.5070/d62110017
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作者:
Angelika Jakobi;Ahmed Hamdan
通讯作者:
Ahmed Hamdan