Maghrebi Arabic

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Maghrebi Arabic

SHOPPER'S DELIGHT

For several centuries after the Islamic conquest, Arabic was spoken only in cities in the Maghreb. It was only hundreds of years later that it entered the countryside and nomadic areas at the expense of the Berber Languages , but these languages coexist to this day.

SEE ALSO

Varieties Of Arabic

Koine s:

--- Algerian Arabic

--- Moroccan Arabic

--- Tunisian Arabic

Fully pre-Hilalian:

--- Jebli Arabic

--- Jijel Arabic

--- Maltese Language

--- Siculo-Arabic (extinct)

Bedouin:

--- Hassaniya Arabic

--- Libyan Arabic

--- Saharan Arabic

Pidgin:

--- Lingua Franca

--- Andalusi Arabic

'' Sidi , a Maghreb title of respect for males (an equivalent of Sir in English).

FURTHER READING

Singer, Hans-Rudolf (1980) “Das Westarabische oder Maghribinische” in Wolfdietrich Fischer and Otto Jastrow (eds.) ''Handbuch der arabischen Dialekte''. Otto Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden. 249-76.

EXTERNAL LINKS

Chapter on Maghreb dialects from The Arabic Language by Kees Versteegh