Shinni ma Shomi kan Kerfotagha’, a Kushi story

Kushi is a minority Chadic language spoken in northeastern Nigeria. This article presents an oral text known as Shinni ma Shomi kan Kerfotagha (‘The story of Shomi and Kerfotagha’), a folktale depicting the adventures of Shomi, the Kushi trickster par excellence. The text is accompanied by word-by-word interlinear analysis and by an English translation.

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Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln
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2025-04-02
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https://doi.org/10.18716/ojs/aaeo/2017_3451
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Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition
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Shinni ma Shomi kan Kerfotagha’, a Kushi story

Gian Claudio Batic
Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln
Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition
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Shinni ma Shomi kan Kerfotagha’, a Kushi story

Gian Claudio Batic
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Kushi is a minority Chadic language spoken in northeastern Nigeria. This article presents an oral text known as Shinni ma Shomi kan Kerfotagha (‘The story of Shomi and Kerfotagha’), a folktale depicting the adventures of Shomi, the Kushi trickster par excellence. The text is accompanied by word-by-word interlinear analysis and by an English translation.

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