Sociolinguistics, Language & Politics, Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) Languages, Language & Linguistics, Ethnic & Minority Studies - General & Miscellaneous, Linguistics & Semiotics - General & Miscellaneous, Bilingual Education

Arabic as a Minority Language

Name: Arabic as a Minority Language
Author: Jonathan Owens
ISBN: 9783110165784

by Jonathan Owens

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Overview

Linguists from Europe, Nigeria, and Israel explore distinctive traits of Arabic when and where it is not the dominant language. Among the topics they discuss are the Arabic language among the Mozarabs of Toledo during the 12th and 13th centuries, Algerian and French in Algeria compared to Moroccan and Dutch in the Netherlands, the Arabic dialects in the Turkish province of Hatay compared to the Aramaic dialects in the Syrian mountains of Qalamun, Moroccan as an emerging language, a quantitative approach to loanwords in Nigerian Arabic, the Arabic speech of Bactria in Afghanistan, and Arabic as a tool for expressing Jewish and Romani ethnic identity. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR