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Adiego, Ignasi-Xavier. "The Survival of the God Name Šarruma in Cilician Names in the Greek Sources." Altorientalische Forschungen 46, no. 2 (2019): 147–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/aofo-2019-0010.

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Abstract This paper studies some Cilician names attested in Greek sources that contain the element ζαρμα-. The two main interpretative hypotheses – a connection to Luwian zalma-, or a connection to the god name Šarruma/Šarma- – are critically analysed. The conclusion reached is that while the ambiguity of ζαρμα- cannot be resolved, it is highly likely that both -sarma and -zarma really existed as different elements in the formation of personal names in Iron Age Hieroglyphic Luwian. There was probably a tendency towards confusion between -sarma and -zarma, caused by phonological proximity and semantic crossing of certain names.
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Hassane, Moulaye. "Qur'anic Exegesis in Niger: A Songhay-Zarma Oral Commentary on Sūrat al-Baqara." Journal of Qur'anic Studies 15, no. 3 (2013): 184–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2013.0117.

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The city of Saayi (Say), Niger has played an important role in the regional development of Islam from the early nineteenth century onwards. This paper traces its history and the biography of the founder, using the available written and oral sources, while also describing its role as a contemporary religious centre. The Qur'an is commented on in local languages both in the context of traditional advanced religious education and in Ramaḍān. The intellectual sources, language and ritual dimensions of enunciation of these oral commentaries are analysed, as are the ceremonies specific to Ramaḍān. Although Say was founded by Fulfulde-speaking scholars, reflecting the general cultural and social evolution of the city and its area, for the past 50 years, the Qur'an commentary in the Friday mosque has been given in Songhay-Zarma. While these commentaries are essentially based on recognised Arabic ones, their language makes some reference to the images and concepts of local Songhay-Zarma culture. The linguistic features and substantive content of Songhay-Zarma oral tafsīr are illustrated by two excerpts, each presenting several verses of Sūrat al-Baqara: one is drawn from a full tafsīr collected in Say in 1968, at the initiative of the well-known statesman and man of letters Boubou Hama; the other was collected in the Zarma country in 1905–6.
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Waheed Ayisa Jayeola. "Definiteness in the Zarma determiner phrase." Legon Journal of the Humanities 30, no. 2 (2019): 141–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ljh.v30i2.7.

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Adjectives in definite Determiner Phrases of Zarma, a Nilo-Saharan language trigger an additional (suffixed/base-merged) lexical determiner; in the event of adjectives modifying nouns, definite determiners can occur with either the nouns or the adjectives or both. In all of these cases, no different readings obtain. Structured interviews were conducted with Zarma native speakers to collect the data for this study. I analyse the phenomenon as a case of definite determiner doubling which does not bear on any form of agreement relations. I further suggest that definite determiner and its subsets – numeral, demonstrative, and quantifier do not overlap. However, each of these can occur alongside adjectives within the DP. Consequently, I consider the adjective as an exponent of the adjunct category. Based on Abney’s DP-Hypothesis and the restrictive theory of the Minimalist Program, the paper argues that the asymmetry in the surface realizations of elements/constituents within the Zarma DP is the effect of movement.
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Muhammad, Abubakar. "On Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance: A Case Study of Zarma of Sokoto State of Nigeria." International Journal of Linguistics 6, no. 5 (2014): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v6i5.5984.

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Singy, Pascal. "Le français au Niger: pratiques déclarées et représentations." Cahiers du Centre de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage, no. 15 (April 9, 2022): 109–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.26034/la.cdclsl.2004.1629.

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Deux raisons au moins militent en faveur de la présence dans ce volume d'un chapitre consacré au français. La première, évidente, tient dans le fait que même s'il fait encore clairement figure de « visitor language » – pour reprendre l'éclairante expression d'Efurosibina ADEGBIJA (1994 : 66), le français constitue aujourd'hui l'unique langue officielle de la République du Niger. Dans ces conditions, on comprendrait mal qu'une étude sociolinguistique conduite à large échelle sur le sol nigérien ne s'arrête pas sur certaines des conséquences attitudinales qu'entraîne un tel état de fait.
 La seconde raison tient au rapport particulier que le français entretient avec certaines des langues locales, rapport dont les effets de véhicularisation - caractéristique majeure du paysage linguistique africain (NICOLAÏ, 2001 : 399) - qui lui sont associés ont toutes chances de peser sur le devenir des Nigériens. Ainsi, l'observation montre qu'en divers points de l'espace nigérien (c'est le cas notamment dans les agglomérations de Niamey, de Maradi et de Tillabéri), le hausa et/ou le songhay-zarma permettent la communication entre des locuteurs qui ne l'ont pas tous pour langue première (CALVET, 1996 : 452). De ce point de vue, assurant une fonction véhiculaire dans certaines circonstances, ils s'opposent ici aux autres idiomes en présence qui, eux, se limitent! à permettre la communication intra-ethnique. Attendu la véhicularité que confère - de jure serait-on tenté de dire - au français son statut de langue de l'Etat, on peut donc poser l'existence dans certaines régions du Niger d'une diglossie véhiculaire (CALVET, 1996).
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Abdoulaye, Mahamane L., and Salimata Abdoulrazikou. "Non-verbal predications in Zarma." Linguistik Online 127, no. 3 (2024): 3–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.127.11086.

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This article presents new findings in the use of copulas nôo ‘be’ and ti ‘be’ in non-verbal predications in Zarma (Songhay; Niger, Nigeria). Based on some exclusive contexts of use and some morphosyntactic criteria, the article distinguishes a basic type of predication with one term “NP + nôo” used in deictic identification (e. g.: Abdù nôo ‘it’s Abdu’) and a type of predication with two terms “NP1 + NP2 + nôo” used in nominal predications and equative sentences (e. g.: wodìn Abdù nôo ‘that is Abdu’). The article shows that copula ti replaces copula nôo in negation but also in non-verbal focus constructions where it is generally preceded by the subordinating conjunction kà/gà and very likely marks the presupposed part of the sentence (e. g.: [Muusà nôo] kà ti càwkŏo ‘[it’s Musa] who is a student’). Finally, the article shows that in Zarma, it is the one-term predication “NP + nôo” that is recruited to mark focus-fronted constituents of verbal and non-verbal predications, thus confirming an observation already made about other languages.
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Kajeej, Omar Abdullah. "غَ رَ بَ طَ نَ ظَ و هَو زا رَ يَا نَاقدٌ نَقده لَقصيدة "َبحق رَب اَلورىَ" لَلشعر اَلحاج عَمر اَ لَ كَ بَ وَي أَنموذجا". Yandoto Academic Journal of Arabic Language and Literature 6, № 01 (2022): 27–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.36349/yajoall.2022.v06i01.003.

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This research in title “Garba Dantsoho Zaria, is Critic his scrutinising the poetry of Alh. Umar Al-Kabawai named "for the sake of mankind’s creator" as model ". The paper intended to highlight the contributions of Garba Dantsoho Zaria, toward the development of Arabic literature and criticism in Nigerian Arabic Literature. The research contained the biography of the author (Critic) Garba Dantsoho Zaria, his struggle for seeking the Arabic language and Islamic studies, his compositions toward the development of Arabic language literature and criticism in the fill of Nigerian Arabic Education, at the end the paper explains the preferment and structure of his book, called the presentation, analysis, and the criticism of the Alh. Umar Al-kabawai poets, finally the conclusion, summary, and recommendations were been given.
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Abu-Irmies, Amani Juma, and Rajai Rasheed Al-Khanji. "The Role of Social Media in Maintaining Minority Languages: A Case Study of Chechen Language in Jordan." International Journal of Linguistics 11, no. 1 (2019): 62. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v11i1.14286.

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This study investigates factors motivating the Chechen people in Jordan to use their indigenous language in social media such as WhatsApp and Facebook. It also explores their attitudes towards using the Chechen language in social media. In order to achieve the aims of this study, the researchers have selected a sample that consists of 340 Chechen people who reside in the Jordanian cities and towns: Al-Suknah, Sweileh and Az zarqa. The instruments of the study were a sociolinguistic questionnaire and an open-ended interview. The findings reveal that Chechens use social media such as Facebook and WhatsApp to preserve the Chechen language and their culture. Also, Chechens of Jordan use their ethnic language to communicate with their friends who understand the Chechen language. Besides, the Chechen language has been used in whatsApp and Facebook to promote unity among family members. Moreover, many Chechen people use social media to communicate with other Chechen speakers regardless of familial ties. Results also indicate that Chechens of Jordan have a high positive attitude towards including the Chechen language in social media.
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Ordu, Stanley, and Blessing Jackson Igrubia Peculiar. "Pragmatic Analysis of Elechi Amadi’s Two Poems: Nsukka and Harmattan in Zaria." Journal of Humanities,Music and Dance, no. 34 (June 15, 2023): 12–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.55529/jhmd.34.12.21.

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This research used literary work as the object of research. The literary works analyzed in this research are two poems by Elech Amadi entitled Nsukka and Harmattan in Zaria. The aim of this research is to show the interpretation of language, culture and natural world. while revealing the meaning through language features in the poems. It applied a descriptive method in its analysis. It used multi-modal critical pragmatics as the theory that guided it. The results of the study revealed that the poet used language in describing the natural world and its beauty
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Džemić, Kemal, and Ramiz Tiganj. "Identity marks in the poetic worlds of Zaim Azemović and Faiz Softić." Univerzitetska misao - casopis za nauku, kulturu i umjetnost, Novi Pazar, no. 19 (2020): 127–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/univmis2019127d.

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The paper deals with the poetic features of Zaim Azemović (1935 - 2015) i Faiz Softić (1958), the contemporary Sandžak poets, writers, publicists, essayists, critiques and researchers of folklore who have given the original poetic discourse to Sandzak-Bosniak and the entire Bosniak literature with their works, whereby enriching these literary traditions with new thematic-motive material and peculiar language expression. Zaim and Faiz shaped their artistic worlds with classic methodological acts, but also with modernistic literary and artistic techniques. Using the interpretative approach, in this paper we comparatively observe their most significant poetic accomplishments, basing the research on the hypothesis that identity mark significantly influenced the poetics of these two notable Sandžak poets. The richness and diversity of the opus of these two Sandžak and Bosniak poets, visible influences they left and are leaving on the contemporary literary messengers, and the esthetic qualities of their creativity, are the main incentive for choosing the authors and the corpus of works that are the subject of our research.
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