Bimbashi Arabic ("soldier Arabic", or Mongallese) was a
pidgin
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of
Arabic
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which developed among military troops in
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan ( ar, السودان الإنجليزي المصري ') was a condominium of the United Kingdom and Egypt in the Sudans region of northern Africa between 1899 and 1956, corresponding mostly to the territory of present-day ...
, and was popular from 1870 to 1920.
Bimbashi later branched and developed into three languages:
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in
Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic ...
,
Ki-Nubi in
Kenya
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and
Uganda
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, and
Juba Arabic
Juba Arabic (, ; ar, عربية جوبا, ‘Arabīyat Jūbā), also known since 2011 as South Sudanese Arabic, is a lingua franca spoken mainly in Equatoria Province in South Sudan, and derives its name from the South Sudanese capital, Juba ...
in
South Sudan
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.
See also
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Varieties of Arabic
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Nubi language
The Nubi language (also called Ki-Nubi, ar, كي-نوبي, kī-nūbī) is a Sudanese Arabic-based creole language spoken in Uganda around Bombo, and in Kenya around Kibera, by the Ugandan Nubians, many of whom are descendants of Emin Pasha' ...
Further reading
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References
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Arabic-based pidgins and creoles
Arabs in Egypt
Arabs in Sudan
Languages of Sudan
Military pidgins
Languages attested from the 1870s
Languages extinct in the 1920s