• Bongor Arabic is a Sudanese Arabic-based creole language that serves as a lingua franca in and around the town of Bongor, Chad. It is a direct descendant...
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  • (May–September), the Logone is navigable between Bongor and N'Djamena, Chad's capital. The population is 29,268 (2008). Bongor has a lively central market square,...
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    form of pidgin Arabic known as Turku was used as a lingua franca. There are still Arabic pidgins in Chad today, such as Bongor Arabic, however most of...
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  • Turku Arabic or simply just Turku is an extinct variant of Bimbashi Arabic that served as a lingua franca in Chad. It's the ancestor to Bongor Arabic and...
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  • its modern descendant Bongor Arabic) in Chad, Ki-Nubi in Kenya and Uganda, and Juba Arabic in South Sudan. Varieties of Arabic Nubi language Holes, C...
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  • creoles. Turku Arabic, a pidgin of colonial Chad Juba Arabic, spoken in South Sudan Nubi language, spoken in Uganda and Kenya Bongor Arabic, which could...
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    bājirmi) Bimbashi Arabic † Turku Arabic, pidgin † Bongor Arabic, pidgin Egyptian varieties are influenced by the Coptic language. Egyptian Arabic (مصرى – maṣri)...
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  • by the languages from which their vocabulary is drawn. Bongor Arabic Juba Arabic Nubi Arabic Nagamese creole, ("Naga Pidgin") is an Assamese-lexified...
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    Sungor (38,000) Mararit (43,000) Daju Semitic languages Bongor Arabic (pidgin) Chadian Arabic Chadic languages Bidiyo Buduma Dangaléat Gabri Herdé Kabalai...
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    The Arabic alphabet, or the Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right-to-left...
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  • information for Bongor Airport at Transport Search website. Airport record for Bongor Airstrip at Landings.com. Retrieved 2013-08-28 "location of Bongor Airstrip"...
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    Mayo-Kebbi Est (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    / 10.267; 15.367 Mayo-Kebbi Est (Arabic: مايو كيبي الشرقية) is one of the 23 regions of Chad. Its capital is Bongor. It is composed of the northern areas...
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    Najdi Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة النجدية) is the group of Arabic varieties originating from the Najd region of Saudi Arabia. Outside of Saudi Arabia, it is...
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    (بينوي) Béré (بيري) Biltine (بلتن) Bitkine (نيتكتن) Bokoro (بوكورو) Bol (بول) Bongor (بونقور) Bousso (بوسو) Djédaa (جيدا) Doba (دوبا) Dourbali (دوربالي) Fada...
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  • From Arabic Loanwords (PhD thesis). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. hdl:2142/63560. Bongo at Gurtong The Jesus Film in Bongo Bongo at WALS...
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  • al-Jummal (Arabic: حِسَاب ٱلْجُمَّل, ḥisāb al-jummal), are a decimal alphabetic numeral system/alphanumeric code, in which the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet...
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    Hejazi Arabic or Hijazi Arabic (HA) (Arabic: حجازي, romanized: ḥijāzī, Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [ħɪˈdʒaːzi]), also known as West Arabian Arabic, is a...
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    Al Arabiya (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    Al Arabiya (Arabic: العربية, transliterated: al-ʿArabiyyah; meaning "The Arabic One" or "The Arab One")[citation needed] is a Saudi state-owned international...
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  • Birgit language Bolgo language Bongor Arabic Boor language Bua language Buduma language Buso language Chadian Arabic Dangaléat language Day language...
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  • Radio Oxygène, in N'Djamena (est. 2017), FM 96.3 Radio Terre Nouvelle, in Bongor (est. 2000), FM 99.44; Catholic La Voix du Paysan, in Doba (est. 1996),...
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    several Bongo–Bagirmi languages in the north, near the border with Chad. In addition, there is a Maban language, Runga. Chadian (Shuwa) Arabic is spoken...
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    Bahr el Ghazal (region of South Sudan) (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    The Bahr el Ghazal (Arabic: بحر الغزال) is a region of northwestern South Sudan. Its name came from the river Bahr el Ghazal. The name translates as "sea...
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    Chad (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    is the second-largest wetland in Africa. Chad's official languages are Arabic and French. It is home to over 200 different ethnic and linguistic groups...
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    few precolonial poems and letters composed in Songhay and written in the Arabic script exist in Timbuktu. However, Songhay is currently written in the Latin...
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    Manu Chao (category Arabic-language singers of France)
    French-born Spanish musician. He sings in French, Spanish, English, Italian, Arabic, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Greek, and occasionally in other languages...
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    the song "Sidi H'bibi" on Puta's Fever, sung in Arabic. See notably "Furious Festa" (on King of Bongo), "La Vida" (on Casa Babylon), and the use of a...
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    Gazelle (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    themes of Arabic love poetry involves comparing the gazelle with the beloved, and linguists theorize ghazal, the word for love poetry in Arabic, is related...
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    languages are widely used for interethnic communication. These include Arabic, Swahili, Amharic, Oromo, Igbo, Somali, Hausa, Manding, Fulani and Yoruba...
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  • occurred in Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War). boma – from Swahili bongo – West African boungu buckra – "white man or person", from Efik and Ibibio...
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    Placeholder name (category CS1 Arabic-language sources (ar))
    a generic name for a small rural town. In British English, Bongo Bongo Land (or Bongo-bongo Land) is a pejorative term used to refer to Third World countries...
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