Moroccan Judeo-Arabic Dialects as Jewish Languages

Structures, Uses and Diversity

AvJoseph Chetrit

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Moroccan Judeo-Arabic Dialects as Jewish Languages provides an in-depth analysis of the diachrony and synchrony of the Judeo-Arabic dialects formed in Morocco from the 16th onwards, their diversity, their constituents, their forms, their categories, and their uses in community and family life.Drawing on extensive linguistic data from a wide range of sources, including manuscripts and oral performances, this book examines the phonetics, phonology and morphology of the Judeo-Arabic dialects to offer insightful analyses and discoveries. Framed by a theoretical and methodological introduction, this book combines the findings of fieldwork with hundreds of informants from over 130 urban and rural Moroccan Jewish communities, for whom Judeo-Arabic is their mother tongue and primary language, with the advantages of modern linguistic, sociolinguistic, and socio-pragmatic analyses that allow for a better understanding of natural dialectal phenomena and their interpretation.The book will be relevant to scholars of Arabic dialectology, sociolinguistics, and Jewish languages.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-04
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Studies in Jewish Languages
Antal sidor:298
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781041113379

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Joseph Chetrit was formerly Head of The Center for the Study of Jewish Culture in Spain and Islamic Lands and Dean in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Haifa, Israel. Prof. Chetrit has taught in the fields of Jewish Languages, Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew Linguistics, French Linguistics and North-African Jewish Poetry at various institutions across his career.

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ForewordPhonologic and phonetic characters1. Socio-pragmatic and dialectological foundationsA. Foundations of a socio-pragmatic model of language1. Introduction2. Elements of a linguistic and discursive socio-pragmatics3. The socio-pragmatic functions of language through discourse4. ConclusionB. Formation and diversity of Jewish languages and Judeo-Arabic in North Africa1. Introduction2. Unity and diversity of Jewish languages3. The Diversity of Judeo-Arabic dialects in North Africa: Lects, polylects, and sociolects4. ConclusionC. The long ethnographic investigation on Judeo-Moroccan oral and linguistic traditions1. Materials and objectives of the Study2. Linguistic and Discursive Investigation3. Conclusion2. Judeo-Arabic Dialects in Morocco: Their Diglossic and hybridized structures1. Introduction2. The constitution and development of the Judeo-Arabic dialects in Morocco3. Semantic-syntactic hybridization ‒ The ʃarħ as a global intertextual hybridization4. The intra-linguistic diversity of Judeo-Arabic dialects5. Conclusion3. Morpho-Phonological and Morphologic Structures in Moroccan Judeo-Arabic dialects1. Introduction2. The various groups of consonantal sounds3. The vowel system4. The morphology of the Judeo-Arabic Dialects and their syllable structures5. Conclusion4. Characteristics and specificities of the main three categories of Judeo-Arabic dialects qal, kjal, ʔal1. Introduction: the autonomy of the Judeo-Arabic dialects and their connections with the diverse communal cultures2. Dialects in the Marrakech and southwest regions – the qal dialects3. Dialects in the Tafilalet and Southeast Region – the kjal dialects4. The dialects of the mixed communities ‒ the ʔal dialects 5. Conclusion5. The Judeo-Arabic dialects Kal of the northern Moroccan Jewish communities1. Introduction2. Linguistic features according to written poetic texts3. Consonants and their realizations in the various texts4. The vowel system of Judeo-Arabic in the communities of northern Morocco: Vowels and their realizations5. Judeo-Arabic as a constituent component of the Ḥaketíya6. Conclusion