Mahdia Dialect: An Urban Vernacular in the Tunisian Sahel Context

Languages

Cristina La Rosa¹ 

[1] Department of Humanities (DISUM), University of Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy;

关键词: Mahdia Arabic;    Maghribi Arabic;    Tunisia;    Sahel;    urban dialects;    Bedouin dialects;   

DOI  :  10.3390/languages6030145

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper aims to present some preliminary results of the linguistic analysis of the dialect of the Wilāya of Mahdia on which few studies exist, focused mainly on phonology. My analysis, here extended to the morpho-syntactic level, is based on a corpus of interviews taken from some social media pages. The sample will be composed of respondents of different geographical origin (from Mahdia and some nearby towns), gender, age and social background. A deeper knowledge of the Arabic of Mahdia region, which is a bundle of urban, Bedouin and “villageois” varieties, would contribute to throw new light on the features of the Saḥlī dialects and would add a small piece to the complex mosaic of Tunisian and Maghrebi dialects, whose traditional categories of classification should be reconsidered.

【 授权许可】

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