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    Arabic as a minority language / edited by Jonathan Owens.

    • Title:Arabic as a minority language / edited by Jonathan Owens.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Owens, Jonathan.
    • Published/Created:Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2000.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Arabic language--Political aspects.
      Arabic language--Social aspects.
      Arabic language--Foreign countries.
      Languages in contact.
      Linguistic minorities.
      Sociolinguistics.
    • Description:x, 458 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
    • Series:Contributions to the sociology of language ; 83.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    • ISBN:3110165783 (alk. paper)
    • Contents:Introduction / Jonathan Owens
      Historical perspectives
      Arabic language among the Mozarabs of Toledo during the 12th and 13th centuries / Ignacio Ferrando
      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
      Arabic linguistic and cultural tradition in Daghestan: an historical overview / Anna Zelkina
      Arabic ethnic minorities
      Modelling intrasentential codeswitching: a comparative study of Algerian/French in Algeria and Moroccan/Dutch in the Netherlands / Louis Boumans and Dominique Caubet
      Arabic speech of Bactria (Afghanistan) / Charles Kieffer
      Arabic as a minority language in Israel / Rafael Talmon
      Making a fish of a friend. Waris: the secret language of Arab koranic school students in Borno / Jonathan Owens and Jidda Hassan
      Loanwords in Nigerian Arabic: a quantitative approach / Jonathan Owens
      Cross-ethnic and non-Arab perspectives
      Arabic dialects in the Turkish province of Hatay and the Aramaic dialects in the Syrian mountains of Qalamun: two minority languages compared / Werner Arnold
      Loanwords in Algerian Berber / Fadila Brahimi
      Moroccan: a language in emergence / Utz Maas
      Language legitimization: Arabic in multiethnic contexts / Fadila Brahimi and Jonathan Owens
      Index of languages and varieties of Arabic.
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