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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461787903321

Autore

Agius Dionisius A.

Titolo

Siculo Arabic / / Dionisius A. Agius

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-283-70963-5

0-203-03858-4

1-136-16178-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (577 p.)

Collana

Library of Arabic linguistics ; ; monograph no. 12

Disciplina

492.77

Soggetti

Arabic language - Dialects - Italy - Sicily

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1996 by Kegan Paul International.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Siculo Arabic; Copyright Page; Contents; List of lllustrations; Maps; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chart; Introduction; Chapter One.The Land of the Siculans; Chapter Two. The Siculo Arabic: Ethnic andSocial Features; Chapter Three. The Socio-Linguistic Scene of Islamic and Post-IslamicSicily; Chapter Four. The Role of Ibn Makkī in Siculo Arabic; Chapter Five. Siculo-LahnArabic: Phonological Correspondences; Chapter Six. Siculo-Arabic: Phonological Correspondences; Chapter Seven. Romance and Greek Interferencesin Siculo-Arabic; Chapter Eight.Siculo-Middle Arabic

General ConclusionBibliography; Index; Glossary of Technical Terms (English-Arabic)

Sommario/riassunto

The development of the Siculo Arabic group of varieties in the early medieval period took place at a time when Sicily was a cross-road of two major cultures, the Latin and the Byzantine. Palermo was a melting pot of linguistic contacts - Romance, Greek and Arabic. The question of language use in Sicily under both the Islamic (213-485/827-1091) and the Norman (485-681/1091-1282) is a complex one. The Arabic spoken by Arabs and non-Arabs at different layers or registers was a different variety to the highly archaized form of Classical Arabic. This study contributes to the understanding of Sic