| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics Online |
| Editors | Geoffrey Khan |
| Publisher | Brill Academic Publishers |
| Pages | 155-161 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Volume | 1 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 900417642X, 9789004176423 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 2013 |
Abstract
Arabic is a diglossic language (Ferguson 1959) with complex and diversified interrelations between many varieties: regional and communal dialects, genderlects (differences between men’s and women’s speech forms), and registers, all in functional distribution with Modern Standard Arabic (Rosenhouse 2008:146).
I shall use the term ‘Israeli Arabic’ as a hyponym of the wider term ‘Palestinian Arabic’, which is part of the Syro-Lebanese-Palestinian dialect type. I restrict the scope to the 1948 borders of the State of Israel. Outside these borders some sociolinguistic and comparative research has been carried out in the Old City of Jerusalem (Spolsky and Cooper 1991), as well as in Bethlehem and border villages (Amara 1999; Amara et al. 1999).
I shall use the term ‘Israeli Arabic’ as a hyponym of the wider term ‘Palestinian Arabic’, which is part of the Syro-Lebanese-Palestinian dialect type. I restrict the scope to the 1948 borders of the State of Israel. Outside these borders some sociolinguistic and comparative research has been carried out in the Old City of Jerusalem (Spolsky and Cooper 1991), as well as in Bethlehem and border villages (Amara 1999; Amara et al. 1999).