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Thomason, Sarah G. and Alaa Elgibali. 1986. Before the Lingua Franca: Pidginized Arabic in the eleventh century A.D. Lingua 68 (4) : 317–349.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
historical linguistics | language contact | lingua franca | pidgin
Language as a subject
Arabic
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
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Annotation

This article analyzes a mid-eleventh century text written in a form of pidginized Arabic.