On the Arabic Varieties Described in the Ǧumāna fī ʾizālat ar-raṭāna

MION, GIULIANO

2017-01-01

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Abstract

This article deals with a treatise of laۊn al-ҍƗmma discovered in Tunis and dating back to the fifteenth century, al-ЁumƗna fƯ ҌizƗlat ar-raܒƗna (‘The pearl that removes the corrupted speech’), a work which includes linguistic mistakes that belong to both Andalusi and Tunisian Arabic. The article presents a dialectological analysis of this treatise that represents a useful source for our knowledge of the linguistic situation of medieval Tunisia.