Simplified Italian of Somalia
| Simplified Italian of Somalia | |
|---|---|
| Pidgin italiano in Somalia Somali-Italian | |
| Native to | Italian Somaliland |
| Region | Somalia |
| Ethnicity | Somalians, Italian Somalians |
| Era | 19th to late-20th centuries |
Italian-based pidgin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| IETF | crp-SO |
Simplified Italian of Somalia is an Italian-based Pidgin that developed in Italian Somaliland during the Italian Colonial Period. The Pidgin was very similar to Italian Eritrean Pidgin[1] and used mostly in the capital region of Mogadishu aswell as other Italianized towns such as Genale or Villabruzi
The Italian language began to spread throughout Somalia during the Colonial period which lasted from 1889 until 1960. Italian was quickly picked up by the local inhabitants and started to become a part of daily life. There were even several newspapers and radio channels in the Italian language.[2] However, the Standard Italian used by the government and crown of Italy differed from the variety used by the inhabitants of Somalia due to the original linguistic differences between Italian and local languages as well as the geographic isolation of the new pidgin from the Italian Peninsula
Notes
[edit]- ^ Tosco, Mauro (2008-01-01). "A case of weak Romancisation: Italian in East Africa". A Case of Weak Romancisation: Italian in East Africa. In: Thomas Stolz, Dik Bakker and Rosa Salas Palomo (Eds.), Aspects of Language Contact. New Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Findings with Special Focus on Romanisation Processes. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton: 2008: 377-398: 377–398. doi:10.1515/9783110206043.377. ISBN 978-3-11-019584-2.
- ^ Baccelli, Sergio (1986). "Stampa Quotidiana Italiana a Mogadiscio (1929-1969)". Africa: Rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione dell'Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente. 41 (2): 281–291. ISSN 0001-9747. JSTOR 40759963.
