Legal And Cultural Studies With Components Of Arabism In Swahili

Abstract

What is certain is that culture is not a coherent and integrated unit, but is made up of different parts. These parts include fundamental beliefs and values, traditions, national feelings and emotional bonds and social relations, which the law relates to each in a different way. The duty of the law in this case is to specify the areas of coexistence. In other words, the law must determine the coexistence environment and its boundaries and prevent those boundaries from being broken. The development of Swahili, the language of East and Central Africa, experienced a significant influence of the Arabic language due to active cultural and trade ties with the Arab world. Among the adapted Arabic borrowings, there is a small group of fused composite words formed in the process of phonetic changes at the junction of their components. Until now, the question of the component structure of composites remains open, as well as the reasons for their appearance in the African language under consideration. The point is that in the source language those composites are not considered to be complex words and are spelt separately. The objective to сomprehend  the composites in Swahili as a specific form reflecting the speech characteristics of the Arabic language is of particular relevance.  The goal of the article is to study Arabic loanwords that form composites in the Swahili language as a result of phonetic changes at the junction of their components and to establish the component structure of complex words. The leading research method is linguistic observation and description, which made it possible to consider composites in terms of the structure and functioning of their components in particular, and as part of complex words in general. The article focuses on the features of the Arabic phonetic, functioning of rhythmic groups that served as the basis for the appearance of composites in Swahili. The most frequent rhythmic group pattern participating in the formation of composites is distinguished, mainly, the status constructus (idāfa) of the donor language.