{"id":1235,"date":"2023-02-26T15:09:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T23:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2023-03-08T10:36:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T18:36:59","slug":"passage-on-moroccan-language-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2023\/02\/26\/passage-on-moroccan-language-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Passage on Moroccan Language Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>The following passage on language contact in Morocco was deleted for reasons of space from my review of Grant&#8217;s Oxford Book of Language Contact (2019) <span style=\"color: #333399;\">[<a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Grant-Lang.pdf\">Grant-Lang]<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em><span style=\"color: #333399;\">in<\/span> the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages:\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\" style=\"text-align: left;\">There are two historically divergent dialects of Arabic in contact in Morocco, the pre-Hilarian, dating from the initial Arab invasions and rooted in the coastal trade centers; and the Hilarian, resulting from a 12th century renewal of Arabic via Bedouin migrations during the Almorad dynasty.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The Moroccan vernacular, Darija, is internally varied but distinct from and in continual contact with Standard Arabic.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\" style=\"text-align: left;\">There are also Berber (Amazigh) substrata and three European languages involved, distributed geographically and sociologically and overlaying the Arabic and the Amazigh mozaics (Mrini and Bond 2018).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\" style=\"text-align: left;\">French and Spanish affected Moroccan Arabic differentially during different phases of colonialism and today English is in the mix. Moreover, younger Moroccans in urban areas code-switch compulsively in SMS messages, often using the Roman alphabet with additional<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>numbers for Arabic letters (3 for <i>\u2018ayn<\/i> and 7 for <i>\u1e25\u0101<\/i>, among others). French is still the language many prefer to talk about things romantic or intimate, this perhaps out of a sense of propriety (Hall 2015, pp. 112-121<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following passage on language contact in Morocco was deleted for reasons of space from my review of Grant&#8217;s Oxford Book of Language Contact (2019) [Grant-Lang]\u00a0in the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages:\u00a0 There are two historically divergent dialects of Arabic in contact in Morocco, the pre-Hilarian, dating from the initial Arab invasions and rooted &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2023\/02\/26\/passage-on-moroccan-language-contact\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Passage on Moroccan Language Contact&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}