Côte d’Ivoire: The making of a new language · Global Voices

Côte d’Ivoire: The making of a new language

Posted 14 March 2011 17:06 GMT

Dr. Peter Vakunta speaks to Mema Bamba about the making of a new Ivorian language, Nouchi: “Nouchi is a vernacular language, nonstandard French of sorts, spoken predominantly by the urban youth in Côte d’Ivoire.”

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Written byNdesanjo Macha

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