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The two Arabic creoles Juba Arabic (in South Sudan) and Ki-Nubi (mainly in Uganda and Kenya) are said to show only few traces of the ancestral African languages of their creators. This idea is due to the fact that up to now the two languages have been compared almost exclusively with the Nilotic Bari language. In the first, socio-historical part of this book it is shown that in Egypt's Equatorial Province, where the common ancestor of these two creoles originated, speakers of Zande, a Niger-Congo language, played a leading role, alongside with speakers of Bari. In the second, linguistic part it turns out that the idea mentioned at the beginning of this abstract no longer holds as soon as the two creoles are compared with both languages, Bari and Zande.
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