Towards a diachronic study of Moroccan Arabic: on some vernacular dialectal features of the sixteenth-century Arabic materials preserved in the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
Résumé
The present paper intends to trawl through an early 16th-century epistolary corpus in order to obtain some linguistic data on the varieties of Arabic which were spoken in the geographic area of present-day western Morocco at that time. Furthermore, it attempts to shed light on the historical development of several dialectal features which may help us better understand the evolution of Arabic dialects in Morocco and the Maghreb area as a whole. The study is based on the linguistic analysis of some of the Luso-Moroccan letters preserved in the National Archives of Torre do Tombo (Lisbon).
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