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X + definite article (i) baſrab-a baſarb-a I drink it' epenthesis (3) baſarb al-labán T drink milk' ſaafat-a ſaaf-t-a 'she saw him' f suffix at → t ſaaf-t al-bitt 'she saw (ii) before V-initial suffix the girl' (iii) kaatb-iin-a kaatb-inn-a 'have written' AP suffix iin→inn kaatbínn al-maktuub pi it before V-initial suffix 'have writtenp1the letter' (iv) min-a → minn-a 'from him' min geminates minn al beet 'from the before V-initial suffix house' THE PECULIAR UNITY OF NIGERIAN ARABIC (4) 27 bu-gnus-u → (bu-gns-u) —» bugúns-u 'they hunt' This rule assumes as input the stem -CVCC-, which appears as such if no Vinitial suffix is added (bugnus 'he hunts'), but which is subject to (3) if a Vinitial suffix is added.

The Kanuri are largely sedentary farmers, and the most important ethnic group (c. 1520, see Lavers 1983). In this context the report in Palmer (19672 II: 101) may be noted which identifies the first king of Ndifu town (SE of Ngala in Nigeria), a man named 'Ahmar' = Arabic 'red', with the first influx of Arabic-speakers. According to Palmer's genealogy,  334 years intervened between Ahmar and the last Sultan, Yusuf. This would give a founding date of about 1600 (Palmer having been originally published in 1928).

The Shukriyya dialect of the eastern Sudan (Reichmuth 1983: 97), as well as various dialects in the Middle East, such as that of northern Jordan (the Horan area) have a similar, if not identical rule to the Eastern Libyan one. Note that in the NA rule, unlike Eastern Libya, vowel quality places no role, so that a low vowel can be elided as well as a high one (biſrab-o→biſárb-o 'they drink'). THE PECULIAR UNITY OF NIGERIAN ARABIC (10) a. lh) Relative to the deletion of the stem-final laryngeal, (9) gives four possibilities: (10) b.

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