KiKAR

KiKAR
Kikeya
Region	British East Africa
Era	mid 20th century
Language family	Swahili pidgin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	`kika1240`^[1]
Guthrie code	`G.40H`^[2]

KiKAR is, or was, a Swahili pidgin spoken among the King's African Rifles (KAR) of British colonial East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Malawi). Although there were, by design, no native Swahili speakers among the KAR, Swahili still functioned as the lingua franca, and a simplified version of it served as a military jargon and pidgin for the troops.

It is not clear if KiKAR is still spoken. Maho (2009) does not list it as extinct.^[2]

References

↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "KiKAR". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
1 2 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

Mutonya, Mungai, & Timothy Parsons, 2004. "KiKAR: A Swahili variety in Kenya's colonial army", Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 25:111–125.

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