Arabic or Latin: Language Contact and Script Practices
This study discusses the social aspects of script reforms and the hierarchies attached to languages and scripts in contact. In Morocco, Arabic, French, and Berber/Amazigh compete for similar social domains. In recent years, intense debates took place surrounding the official adoption of Tifinagh to codify Amazigh; however less focus has been placed on the unofficial selection of the French-based Latin characters to write both Arabic and Amazigh. This study argues that, besides practicality, preference of the Latin script in Morocco is ideologically connected to the status of French as a language that indexes power, modernity and social prestige.
https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2019.13.8080
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https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2019.13.8080
Language ideologies
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This study discusses the social aspects of script reforms and the hierarchies attached to languages and scripts in contact. In Morocco, Arabic, French, and Berber/Amazigh compete for similar social domains. In recent years, intense debates took place surrounding the official adoption of Tifinagh to codify Amazigh; however less focus has been placed on the unofficial selection of the French-based Latin characters to write both Arabic and Amazigh. This study argues that, besides practicality, preference of the Latin script in Morocco is ideologically connected to the status of French as a language that indexes power, modernity and social prestige.
Language contact
Arabic or Latin: Language Contact and Script Practices
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13
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2019
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Vol 13 (2019)
2019-12-22
Contacts
urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-ep0003-2019-2357
Periodical
Philipps-Universität Marburg
urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-ep00032
General history of Asia; Middle East
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2714728-9
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Middle East - Topics + Arguments
Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS)
Writing systems
Amazigh/Berber
2019-12-22
2019
Soulaimani, Dris
Soulaimani
Dris
Arabic
2020-01-18
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