Revue semestrielle de linguistique et littératures romanes

Écho des études romanes 2008, 4(1):19-27 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2008.002

Particularités lexicales du français au BurundiFrench

Jaromír KADLEC
Université Palacký d'Olomouc

Lexical particularities of the French in Burundi

The position of French in Burundi and other former Belgian colonies in Africa is less favourable and more vulnerable than in the other African French-speaking countries situated more in the North. Burundi, Rwanda and Congo undergo a transition in the field of language policy. Burundi has awarded an official status to the national language and has extended the field of its utilisation, which has had an impact on the local French vocabulary. The French in Burundi contains abundant loan words from Kirundi and Swahili as well as many calques from the national language of Burundi. Many words have been borrowed from English. The derivation and the composition permitted to form various neologisms. In addition, we may identify numerous semantic particularities if compared to the standard French.

Keywords: French; Burundi; lexical particularities; loan words; neologisms; language policy

Published: June 11, 2008  Show citation

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KADLEC, J. (2008). Particularités lexicales du français au Burundi. Écho des études romanes, 4(1), 19-27. doi: 10.32725/eer.2008.002
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