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Title	Arabic as a minority language / edited by Jonathan Owens
Imprint	Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2000

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Contents

Addresses of contributors

Abbreviations

Introduction / Jonathan Owens 1

Historical perspectives

The Arabic language among the Mozarabs of Toledo during the 12th and 13th centuries / Ignacio Ferrando 45

Arabic as a tool for expressing Jewish and Romani ethnic identity (a prolegomenon to a typology of Arabic in non-Arabic speaking communities) / Paul Wexler 65

The Arabic linguistic and cultural tradition in Daghestan: an historical overview / Anna Zelkina 89

Arabic ethnic minorities

Modelling intrasentential codeswitching: a comparative study of Algerian/French in Algeria and Moroccan/Dutch in the Netherlands / Louis Boumans, Dominique Caubet 113

The Arabic speech of Bactria (Afghanistan) / Charles Kieffer 181

Arabic as a minority language in Israel / Rafael Talmon 199

Making a fish of a friend. Waris: the secret language of Arab koranic school students in Borno / Jonathan Owens, Jidda Hassan 221

Loanwords in Nigerian Arabic: a quantitative approach / Jonathan Owens 259

Cross-ethnic and non-Arab perspectives

The Arabic dialects in the Turkish province of Hatay and the Aramaic dialects in the Syrian mountains of Qalamun: two minority languages compared / Werner Arnold 347

Loanwords in Algerian Berber / Fadila Brahimi 371

Moroccan: a language in emergence / Utz Maas 383

Language legitimization: Arabic in multiethnic contexts / Fadila Brahimi, Jonathan Owens 405

Index of languages and varieties of Arabic 447

Index of places 450

Index of subjects 453

Description x, 458 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Series Contributions to the sociology of language ; 83

Contributions to the sociology of language ; 83.

Note Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Subjects Arabic language -- Foreign countries

Arabic language -- Social aspects

Arabic language -- Political aspects

Linguistic minorities.

Languages in contact.

Sociolinguistics.

Alt Name Owens, Jonathan.

LC NO PJ6074 .A73 2000

OCLC # 42726171

ISBN 3110165783 (alk. paper)

LCCN 99054417

Addresses of contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction / Jonathan Owens		1
Historical perspectives
	The Arabic language among the Mozarabs of Toledo during the 12th and 13th centuries / Ignacio Ferrando	45
	Arabic as a tool for expressing Jewish and Romani ethnic identity (a prolegomenon to a typology of Arabic in non-Arabic speaking communities) / Paul Wexler	65
	The Arabic linguistic and cultural tradition in Daghestan: an historical overview / Anna Zelkina	89
Arabic ethnic minorities
	Modelling intrasentential codeswitching: a comparative study of Algerian/French in Algeria and Moroccan/Dutch in the Netherlands / Louis Boumans, Dominique Caubet	113
	The Arabic speech of Bactria (Afghanistan) / Charles Kieffer	181
	Arabic as a minority language in Israel / Rafael Talmon	199
	Making a fish of a friend. Waris: the secret language of Arab koranic school students in Borno / Jonathan Owens, Jidda Hassan	221
	Loanwords in Nigerian Arabic: a quantitative approach / Jonathan Owens	259
Cross-ethnic and non-Arab perspectives
	The Arabic dialects in the Turkish province of Hatay and the Aramaic dialects in the Syrian mountains of Qalamun: two minority languages compared / Werner Arnold	347
	Loanwords in Algerian Berber / Fadila Brahimi	371
	Moroccan: a language in emergence / Utz Maas	383
	Language legitimization: Arabic in multiethnic contexts / Fadila Brahimi, Jonathan Owens	405
Index of languages and varieties of Arabic		447
Index of places		450
Index of subjects		453