User:M. Dingemanse

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From articles I contributed

• ...that Sonjo, a Bantu language of northern Tanzania, has been spoken for centuries in an isolated enclave in Maasai territory?
• ...that a large portion of the vocabulary of the coastal
  Ekoti derives from a past variety of Swahili
  ?
• ...that the border between
  Victoria Nile
  ?
• ...that Diedrich H. Westermann found out that some of the Sudanic languages were related to the Bantu languages but did not explicitly state this conclusion until much later in his career, out of respect for his teacher Carl Meinhof?
• ...that the
  Qala'un Mosque was considered the most glamorous mosque in Cairo until its wooden dome collapsed in the 16th century
  ?
• ...that the
  Yaaku at a community meeting between 1925 and 1936 decided to abandon their own language in favour of Maasai
  ?
• ...that
  Bono Manso, the capital of Bono state, was an ancient Akan trading town in present-day Ghana, which was frequented by caravans from Djenné as part of the Trans-Saharan trade
  ?
• ...that
  Dorobo is a derogatory Maa term for various unrelated hunter-gatherer groups of Kenya and Northern Tanzania
  ?
• ...that the Defaka people of Nigeria are gradually abandoning their language in favour of the language of the Nkoroo, their close neighbours?
• ...that missionaries of the Belgian
  Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae did missionary work in China, Mongolia, the Philippines, and in Congo Free State/Belgian Congo
  ?
• ...that many speakers of
  Aswan High Dam
  ?

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I edited here on a regular basis from August 2004 until February 2007. I was made an

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