Diversity of Judeo-Arabic Dialects in North Africa

Eqa:l, Wqal, kjal and ʔal Dialects

Dados Bibliográficos

ID17823966
AutoresJoseph Chetrit (University of Haifa, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume4
Fascículo1
Páginas1-43
Data de publicação2016-01-19
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Jewish Languages (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2213-4387 • E-ISSN: 2213-4638
EditoraBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/22134638-12340062
OpenAlexW2319068999
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas21

This study presents the diversity of North African Judeo-Arabic dialects documented in an extensive course of fieldwork concerning some one hundred and thirty Moroccan Jewish dialects, both urban and rural. Dozens of additional dialects from Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria complete the global repartitioning of these dialects into four distinct groups: Eqa:l , Wqal , k j al , and ʔal dialects. The different dialects in each set share common phonetic, phonological, morphological, and grammatical features. All of them preserve the unvoiced realization of the stop /q/ and articulate it as a uvular [ q ] ( Eqa:l and Wqal ), a palato-velar [ k j ] ( k j al ), or a glottal [ ʔ ] ( ʔal ). Eqa:l dialects developed in Libya, Tunisia, and Eastern Algeria; they distinguish between long and short vowels. Wqal dialects developed in Western Morocco. K j al dialects developed in northwestern Algeria and in southeastern Morocco. ʔal dialects developed in Moroccan cities, where Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal settled among native Jews

Arabic · Ethnology · Geography · Linguistic diversity · Linguistics · Sociology · Anthropology · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics