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The Vowel System of Cantilena: Its historical Development
2009
Overview
The main obstacle in the historical study of Arabic dialectology is the scarcity of old documents written in any dialect. Maltese, originating from the Arabic dialects of North Africa, possesses a very curious early poem called Cantilena from the 15th century. Because Maltese had been isolated from the norm of literary Arabic since the 12th century, this poem was written in a dialectal form with the Latin alphabet, thus providing us with much interesting material. In this study I will analyse the vowel system of the language of Cantilena comparing it with that of other Arabic dialects of the Middle Ages & the present day. It will be shown that the linguistic characteristics of the vowel systems observed in modern Arabic dialects of North Africa, especially the dialect of Tunisia, are shared with the 15th century Maltese represented in Cantilena.
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9789027205803, 9027205809
