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- Title
Judeo-Arabic: a diachronic reexamination.
- Authors
Hary, Benjamin
- Abstract
Continuuglossia is a rather stable linguistic condition in which different varieties of a language exist side by side in a language community, and are used under different circumstances with various functions and varying degrees of competence. These varieties can be placed on an imaginary continuum where speakers and writers constantly shift between lects all the time. This paper examines the diachronic development of continuuglossia in Judeo-Arabic, the language of the Jews in Arab land, from the eighth century CE until the present time. Jews used this ethnolect, writing it in Hebrew characters and allowing dialectal elements as well as pseudo-corrected features to penetrate the written literary language. Furthermore, the ethnolect contained Hebrew and Aramaic grammatical and lexical elements making the linguistic situation even more complex. These phenomena open a window to the investigation of the Arabic continuuglossia in general and can explain its historical development.
- Subjects
JUDEO-Arabic language; ARABIC language; DIGLOSSIA (Linguistics); HEBREW language; JEWISH languages; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2003, Vol 2003, Issue 163, p61
- ISSN
0165-2516
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/ijsl.2003.047