Jabal al-Lughat

Seeing as you can't turn on the news in France these days without hearing a certain more-French-than-thou provocateur fulminating agains...

(Exploratory notes, written to be readable to linguists but posted in the hope of feedback from geneticists and/or statisticians - in my pre...

Looking through Corriente's etymological dictionary of Andalusi Arabic, I keep coming across explanations for obscure Dellys words whose...

Phoenix has started posting a rather interesting series on the orthography of the Qur'an and the linguistic features it reflects . Such...

In many parts of the Arabic-speaking world, different religious groups in the same town or region speak different dialects. Morocco is one ...

In Part 39 of the Muqaddimah , written in 1377, Ibn Khaldun discusses Arabic dialectology and language contact, reaching substantially corre...