Cypriot Maronite Arabic

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Cypriot Maronite Arabic
Spoken in:	Northern Cyprus, Cyprus
Total speakers:	1,300 (1995)
Language family:	Afro-Asiatic  Semitic   West Semitic    Central Semitic     South Central Semitic      Arabic       Cypriot Maronite Arabic
Writing system:	Arabic alphabet
Official status
Official language in:	none
Regulated by:	none
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	–
ISO 639-3:	acy
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One of the most divergent of Arabic varieties is Cypriot Maronite Arabic (also known as Cypriot Arabic, Maronite, Sanna), spoken by Maronites in Cyprus. Most speakers are in Nicosia, but others are in the communities in Kormakiti (140) and Limassol (80-100). All speakers are over 30 years of age. ^[1] Brought to the island by Maronites fleeing Lebanon at least 700 years ago, this variety of Arabic has been very heavily influenced by Greek in both phonology and vocabulary, while retaining certain unusually archaic features in other respects.

Contents 1 Notes 2 Bibliography 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Notes

[edit] Bibliography

• Ethnologue entry for Cypriot Arabic
• Alexander Borg. A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic-English). Brill 2004. ISBN 90 04 13198 1
• Alexander Borg. Cypriot Arabic Phonology. In Kaye, Alan S., editor, Phonologies of Asia and Africa (including the Caucasus), volume 1, chapter 15, pp. 219--244. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1997. ISBN 1-57506-017-5
• Alexander Borg. Cypriot Arabic: A Historical and Comparative Investigation into the Phonology and Morphology of the Arabic Vernacular Spoken by the Maronites of Kormakiti Village in the Kyrenia District of North-Western Cyprus, Stuttgart: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, 1985. ISBN 3515039996
• Tsiapera, M. A Descriptive Analysis of Cypriot Maronite Arabic, The Hague: Mouton & Co., N.V., 1969.

[edit] See also

• Cypriot Maronite Arabic Swadesh List

[edit] External links

• Cypriot Arabic in northern Cyprus by Alkan Chaglar, Toplum Postasi
• The Spoken Arabic Dialect Of The Maronites Of Cyprus, George Thomas 2000.
• German Homepage of Maronitische Christliche Union Deutschlands e.V. Arabic/German

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