| Title: | Mshenzi: the Barbarian (a study in sociolinguistics) |
| Author: | Ohly, Rajmund |
| Year: | 1975 |
| Periodical: | Kiswahili |
| Volume: | 45 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 29-35 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | East Africa |
| Abstract: | Analysis through time of the term mshenzi, ‘an uncivilised person or one ignorant of customs/social conventions’ (The new Swahili unilingwal dictionary, in print). The development and change of the meanings of mshenzi were due to social and cultural changes over the centuries, and also give an indication or the development of East African social stratification. Notes. |
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