Arabic as a Minority Language

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Jonathan Owens
Walter de Gruyter, Mar 12, 2013 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 468 pages
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Contents

Introduction
1
Historical perspectives
45
Arabic as a tool for expressing Jewish and Romani ethnic identity a prolegomenon to a typology of Arabic in non Arabic speaking communities
65
an historical overview
89
Arabic ethnic minorities
113
The Arabic speech of Bactria Afghanistan
181
Arabic as a minority language in Israel
199
the secret language of Arab koranic school students in Borno
221
Crossethnic and nonArab perspectives
347
Loanwords in Algerian Berber
371
a language in emergence
383
Arabic in multiethnic contexts
405
Index of languages and varieties of Arabic
447
Index of places
450
Index of subjects
453
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a quantitative approach
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