Jijel Arabic
Jijeli | |
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Native to | Algeria |
Region | Jijel Province |
Afro-Asiatic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
arq-jij | |
Glottolog | None |
IETF | ar-u-sd-dz18 |
Jijeli, or Jijel Arabic, is a variety of Arabic spoken specifically in the Jijel Province in northeastern Algeria, but traces of it reach parts of the neighboring Skikda and Mila Provinces. It is quite different from all the other Arabic dialects spoken in eastern Algeria and has probably survived into present times because of the geographic enclavement of that mountainous area and the difficulty of terrestrial connections with the rest of the country for centuries.
Jijel is a relic of the Pre-Hilalian Arabic dialects (resulting from the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb in the 7th and 8th centuries) once spoken over all of Constantine, Algeria but later mixed with Bedouin Hilalian dialects brought by the invasion of the Banu Hilal in the 11th century.
Pre-Hilalian Arabic dialects remained intact only in a small area around
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References
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-06. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
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