Toponyms and identity in Hanang’District: Their origin and meaning

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dc.contributor.authorAlphonce, C.
dc.contributor.authorSane, E.
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-04T14:42:46Z
dc.date.available2023-01-04T14:42:46Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionFull Text Article. Also Available at https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/eas-2019-0012en_US
dc.description.abstractThis article is centred on place identity in Hanang’ District. Informed by the literature about place identity, the study describes the origin and the sociolinguistic meaning of place names following the analysis of 110 names that were collected from different places around Hanang’ District. Snowball sampling was appropriately used to obtain 15 informants for face-to-face interviews. Our analysis revealed that many place names in Hanang’ are predominantly from Datooga language and a few from Kiswahili, Nyaturu, Iraqw, Alagwa and Maasai. The qualitative analysis of the names revealed that the names have informative content deriving from landscape features, plants, people, animals and names of birds, events, activities, and the behaviour of some objects in the place. Sometimes, post-modification is done for descriptive specification. This is to say that marked geographical features and events in a particular place characterise the place in Hanang’. Therefore, place names in Hanang’ serve to describe the people’s history, beliefs, or label important features. There is a trend of shift in a number of place names in Hanang’ as a result of contact with the Bantu speakers. This has, consequently, contributed to the replacement of some indigenous sounds by the Kiswahili sounds that contributed to the loss and/or hybridization of names in terms of spelling and pronunciationen_US
dc.identifier.citationAlphonce, C., & Sane, E. (2019). Toponyms and identity in Hanang’District: Their origin and meaning. Ethnologia Actualis, 19(1), 106-116.en_US
dc.identifier.otherURL:https://doi.org/10.2478/eas-2019-0012
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/3603
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSciendoen_US
dc.subjectDatoogaen_US
dc.subjectHanang’en_US
dc.subjectNames meaningen_US
dc.subjectPlace namesen_US
dc.subjectToponymyen_US
dc.titleToponyms and identity in Hanang’District: Their origin and meaningen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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