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Andalusi Arabic

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Also known as Andalusian Arabic

variety of Arabic formerly spoken on the Iberian Peninsula

Key facts

Native to
Al-Andalus (modern-day Spain and Portugal )
Extinct
after early 17th century
Language family
Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Maghrebi Andalusi Arabic
Writing system
Arabic alphabet ( Maghrebi script )
Iso 639 3
xaa
Glottolog
anda1287

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
dead language
Subclass of
Maghrebi Arabic
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native label
عربية أندلسية
indigenous to
Morisco
linguistic typology
fusional language
writing system
Arabic alphabet
dissolved, abolished or demolished date
1700-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview

The Arte para ligeramente saber la lengua arauiga (1506) by Pedro de Alcalá uses an innovative system for transcribing Andalusian Arabic that has been called "the first Western system of Arabic scientific transcription" by Federico Corriente.

Andalusi Arabic or Andalusian Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة العربية الأندلسية, romanized: al-lahja al-ʿarabiyya al-ʾandalusiyya) was a variety or varieties of Arabic spoken mainly from the 8th to the 15th century in Al-Andalus, the regions of the Iberian Peninsula under the Muslim rule.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Andalusi Arabic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.