Andalusi Arabic
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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
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- dead language
- Subclass of
- Maghrebi Arabic
- Country
- emirate of Córdoba
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- native label
- عربية أندلسية
- indigenous to
- Morisco
- linguistic typology
- fusional language
- writing system
- Arabic alphabet
- topic's main category
- Category:Andalusian Arabic language
- 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.