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Dialects of Arabic spoken in non-Arab countries
- The subject of this article is the so-called peripheral Arabic dialects, i.e. dialects of Arabic spoken in non-Arab countries, with a focus on Anatolian Arabic and Central Asian Arabic dialects, as well as brief discussions of Cypriot Maronite Arabic and Khorasan Arabic in some parts.1 For the study of the history of the Arabic dialects, peripheral Arabic dialects, which lost contact many centuries ago with the mainstream Arabic-speaking world, are crucial.
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Varieties of Arabic (or dialects or vernacular languages) are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively. [2] Arabic is a Semitic language within the Afroasiatic family that originated in the Arabian Peninsula.
Peripheral varieties of Arabic are vernaculars spoken within large traditional communities, outside the current borders of the Arab world, in non-Arabic macro-contexts, in several countries such as Turkey, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Cyprus.
The subject of this article is the so-called peripheral Arabic dialects, i.e. dialects of Arabic spoken in non-Arab countries, with a focus on Anatolian Arabic and Central Asian Arabic dialects, as well as brief discussions of Cypriot Maronite Arabic and Khorasan Arabic in some parts.1 For the study of the history of the Arabic dialects, periphe...
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Peripheral Arabic varieties have been the focus of many researchers in recent Arabic dialectology history. They represent varieties of Arabic spoken outside the boundaries of Arab countries. Because of that, they took a different development route from that of “mainstream” Arabic varieties.
- David Wilmsen
Arabic is one of a few language systems in the world that are characterized by the coexistence of two distinct varieties of the same language, used side by side in the same speech community, each having a set of specialized functions.
- Mahdi Alosh
- 2005
Peripheral Arabic varieties have been the focus of many researchers in recent Arabic dialectology history. They represent varieties of Arabic spoken outside the boundaries of Arab countries. Because of that, they took a different development route from that of “mainstream” Arabic varieties.
Jun 13, 2019 · native speakers of Arabic, namely that both Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic are grouped together into the category of al-luġa al-ʿarabiyya al-fuṣḥā (lit. ‘the eloquent Arabic ...
