Mahdia Dialect

An Urban Vernacular in the Tunisian Sahel Context

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ID5901276
AuthorsCarmelo La Rosa (0000-0003-0446-4120, University of Catania, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume6
Issue3
Pages145
Publication date2021-08-27
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguages (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/languages6030145
OpenAlexW3195628042
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited17

This paper aims to present some preliminary results of the linguistic analysis of the dialect of the Wilāya of Mahdia on which few studies exist, focused mainly on phonology. My analysis, here extended to the morpho-syntactic level, is based on a corpus of interviews taken from some social media pages. The sample will be composed of respondents of different geographical origin (from Mahdia and some nearby towns), gender, age and social background. A deeper knowledge of the Arabic of Mahdia region, which is a bundle of urban, Bedouin and "villageois" varieties, would contribute to throw new light on the features of the Saḥlī dialects and would add a small piece to the complex mosaic of Tunisian and Maghrebi dialects, whose traditional categories of classification should be reconsidered

Arabic · Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Geography · Linguistics · Phonology · Sociology · Vernacular · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology

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