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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790814603321

Titolo

Arabic as a minority language / / edited by Jonathan Owens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 2000

ISBN

3-11-080545-6

Edizione

[Reprint 2013]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (472 p.)

Collana

Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ; ; 83

Contributions to the sociology of language ; ; 83

Classificazione

EN 1650

Altri autori (Persone)

OwensJonathan

Disciplina

492.7

Soggetti

Arabic language - Political aspects

Arabic language - Social aspects

Arabic language - Foreign countries

Languages in contact

Linguistic minorities

Sociolinguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Addresses of contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction / Owens, Jonathan -- Historical perspectives -- The Arabic language among the Mozarabs of Toledo during the 12th and 13th centuries / Ferrando, Ignacio -- Arabic as a tool for expressing Jewish and Romani ethnic identity. (a prolegomenon to a typology of Arabic in non-Arabic speaking communities) / Wexler, Paul -- The Arabic linguistic and cultural tradition in Daghestan: an historical overview / Zelkina, Anna -- Modelling intrasentential codeswitching: a comparative study of Algerian/French in Algeria and Moroccan/Dutch in the Netherlands / Boumans, Louis / Caubet, Dominique -- The Arabic speech of Bactria (Afghanistan) / Kieffer, Charles -- Arabic as a minority language in Israel / Talmon, Rafael -- Making a fish of a friend. Waris: the secret language of Arab koranic school students in Borno / Owens, Jonathan / Hassan, Jidda -- Loanwords in Nigerian Arabic: a quantitative approach / Owens, Jonathan -- Cross-ethnic and non-Arab perspectives -- The Arabic dialects in the Turkish province of Hatay and the Aramaic dialects in the Syrian mountains of Qalamûn: two minority languages compared / Arnold, Werner -- Loanwords in



Algerian Berber / Brahimi, Fadila -- Moroccan: a language in emergence / Maas, Utz -- Language legitimization: Arabic in multiethnic contexts / Brahimi, Fadila / Owens, Jonathan -- Index of languages and varieties of Arabic -- Index of places -- Index of subjects -- Backmatter