Bimbashi Arabic

Bimbashi Arabic ("soldier Arabic", or Mongallese) was a pidgin of Arabic which developed among military troops in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and was popular from 1870 to 1920.^[1] Bimbashi later branched and developed into three languages: Turku (and its modern descendant Bongor Arabic) in Chad, Ki-Nubi in Kenya and Uganda, and Juba Arabic in South Sudan.^[2]

Bimbashi Arabic
Mongallese
Region	Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Era	1870–1920[1]
Language family	Arabic-based pidgin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	earl1245

See also

• Varieties of Arabic
• Nubi language

Further reading

• Holes, C. (2004). Modern Arabic: Structures, Functions, and Varieties. Georgetown University Press. p. 26. ISBN 9781589010222. Retrieved 2015-02-22.