Variation and Changes in Arabic Urban Vernaculars

Catherine Miller (1)

1 IREMAM - Institut de Recherches et d'Etudes sur les Mondes Arabes et Musulmans

The paper is an overview and state of the art of sociolinguistic studies and dialect studies on Arabic urban vernaculars. It focuses on the issues of religious and communal variation as well as on the impact of migration upon Arabic urban vernaculars. It presents a preliminary typology of Arabic urban settings.

Mots clés: Arabic dialects; urban sociolinguistics

Mots clés: dialectes arabes; sociolinguistique urbaine

Domaines: Linguistique

Catherine Miller. Variation and Changes in Arabic Urban Vernaculars. M. Haak, K. Versteegh & R. Dejong. Approaches to Arabic Dialects : Collection of Articles presented to Manfred Woidich on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday, Amsterdam : Brill, pp.177- 206, 2004. ⟨halshs-00150422⟩