Publications

Publication details [#44493]

Al-Saqqaf, Abdullah Hassan. 2006. The Linguistics of Loanwords in Hadrami Arabic. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 9 (1) : 75–93.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | loanword | poetry | register

Language as a subject

Arabic, Hadrami | English | Languages, Indian | Languages, Malayo | Swahili

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This article examines loanwords, confined to registers such as food and modern technology, in Hadrami Arabic (Yemen). The donor languages include English, Swahili and Indian and Malay languages.