Waves of Arabization and the vernaculars of North Africa

Pereira, Christophe

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“…However, the three main waves of invasions (647-709 AD) were mainly military and did not lead to a massive Arabization of the Maghreb region, which remained basically Berberophone (Achab, 2006). It was only from the 11 th century and as an inevitable result of the migration of the Bedouin tribes, namely Banū Hilāl, Maʕqil and Banū Sulaym out of Egypt into North Africa, an event which was later referred to as Hilalian migration 'Tagheribat Bani Hilal', that the conquered region was exceedingly Arabized (Pereira, 2017). Given these two historical events, Arabization of the Maghreb region is commonly considered to be a two-stage process.…”

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“…Following the categorization advanced by Ibn Khaldoun, the Maghrebi group of Arabic dialects is divided into: the non-Hilālī (or pre-Hilālī) sedentary ḥaḍarī vernaculars and the Bedouin badawī vernaculars (Pereira, 2017). The pre-Hilālī dialects are spoken in the oldest cities of Northern Africa, namely, Soussa, Mehdia and Kairouan in contemporary Tunisia; Badis, Tangier and Fez in today's Morocco, in addition to Djidjelli, Collo and Canstantine in today's northeast part of Algeria: the area between Nedroma, Rashgoun and Telmcen in northwest Algeria.…”

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Language Policy and Planning in Algeria: Case Study of Berber Language Planning

Hamdan

Kessar

2022

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This paper discusses the Berber language situation in Algeria in a language policy and planning context. It comprises two main parts. The first provides a general account of the linguistic profile of Algeria coupled with a historical context of the Berber language and Algerian Arabic. In order to develop a deeper understanding of the present issue, the second section is devoted to the Berber language planning, and the socio-political context of its recognition as the second official language alongside Arabic. In accordance with Hornberger’s (2006) Integrative Framework, the study provides a critical examination of the Berber language planning process, i.e., corpus and acquisition planning, and explores the challenges language planners are facing.

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Language Policy and Planning in Algeria: Case Study of Berber Language Planning

Hamdan

Kessar

2022

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Towards an account of historical new-dialect formation in northern Africa

Benkato

2023

Studies in Arabic Linguistics

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The two “waves” which are held to have brought Arabic to northern Africa are typically assumed to have been homogenous entities which subsequently developed in situ into the numerous dialects of the modern period. This paper argues that the complex distribution of phonological variants seen in the modern dialects can be better accounted for by assuming multiple input dialects and a sociolinguistic process of new-dialect formation leading to new output dialects. It uses the example of sibilant merging, attested in a number of dialects, wherein the Arabic non-emphatic sibilants s/š and z/ž merge their places of articulation. Sibilant merging in these dialects is argued to be an internal development preceding the spread of Arabic into northern Africa rather than solely the result of language contact.

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An Innovative Copula in Maghrebi Arabic and Its Dialectological Repercussions: The Case of Copular yabda

Benkato

Pereira

2021

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Research on copulas in Arabic dialects has hitherto largely focused on the pronominal copula, and has also mostly ignored Maghrebi dialects. Drawing on published literature as well as fieldwork-based corpora, this article identifies and analyzes a hitherto undescribed verbal copula in dialects of Tunisian and northwestern Libya deriving from the verb yabda (“to begin”). We show that copular yabda occurs mostly in predicational copular sentences, with time reference including the habitual present and generic future. It takes nominal, adjectival, and locational predicate types. We also argue for broader inclusion of syntactic isoglosses in Arabic dialectology, and show how copular yabda crosses the traditional isogloss lines established on the basis of phonology, morphology, or lexicon, and therefore contradicts established dialect classifications such as Bedouin/sedentary or Tunisian/Libyan.

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Waves of Arabization and the vernaculars of North Africa

Cited by 4 publications

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Language Policy and Planning in Algeria: Case Study of Berber Language Planning

Language Policy and Planning in Algeria: Case Study of Berber Language Planning

Towards an account of historical new-dialect formation in northern Africa

An Innovative Copula in Maghrebi Arabic and Its Dialectological Repercussions: The Case of Copular yabda

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