Cypriot Maronite Arabic

Cypriot Maronite Arabic
Spoken in:	Cyprus
Total speakers:	—
Language family:	}}} Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic South-Central Semitic Arabic Cypriot Maronite Arabic}}}
Writing system:	Arabic alphabet
Official status
Official language of:	none
Regulated by:	none
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`—`
ISO 639-3:	`?`

Probably the most divergent of all Arabic varieties is Cypriot Maronite Arabic, still spoken by 130 Maronites in Kormatiki, 100 in Limassol and 60 in the rest of Maronite community in Cyprus. ^[1] Kormakiti, one of 4 Maronite villages in the mountains of northern Cyprus, and in refugee communities in Nicosia and Limassol. most of the 130 elderly Maronite Catholics in Kormakiti (Korucam) in northern Cyprus, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Brought to the island by Maronites fleeing Lebanon at least 700 years ago, this unique variety of Arabic has been very heavily influenced by Greek in both phonology and vocabulary, while retaining certain unusually archaic features in other respects.

Bibliography

Alexander Borg. A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic-English). Brill 2004. ISBN 90 04 13198 1 Publisher's sales page
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.

References

1. ^ [1] Ethnologue entry on Cypriot Arabic

External links

Cypriot Arabic in northern Cyprus by Alkan Chaglar, Toplum Postasi
The Spoken Arabic Dialect Of The Maronites Of Cyprus, George Thomas 2000.

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