Shirvani Arabic
| Shirvani Arabic | |
|---|---|
| عربية شروانية | |
| Native to | Azerbaijan, Dagestan (Russia) |
| Region | Caucasus |
| Extinct | Second half of the 19th century[citation needed] |
Afro-Asiatic
| |
| Arabic | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
Shirvani Arabic (
Arabic that was once spoken in what is now central and northeastern Azerbaijan (historically known as Shirvan) and Dagestan (southern Russia
).
History
Arabic had been spoken in the region since the
Muslim by way of conversion.[1]
The latest documentation of the existence of Shirvani Arabic is attributed to the Azerbaijani historian Abbasgulu Bakikhanov who mentioned in his 1840 historical work Golestan-i Iram that "to this day a group of Shirvan Arabs speaks an altered version of Arabic." Arabic continued to be spoken in Dagestan until the 1920s mostly by upper-class feudals as a second or third language, as well as a language of literature, politics and written communication.[2]
Daghestan. Daghestani Arabist scholars were famous, attracting students from the whole Muslim world. The lingua franca in Daghestan before the Revolution was Arabic. Then, in the 1920s and 1930s, the main thrust of the anti-religious campaign, was to eradicate Arabic, a religious language, and replace it with Russian. The finest flower of Arabist scholarship disappeared in Stalin's purges.— Bryan, p. 210[3]
See also
References
- ISBN 3-11-016578-3
- ^ Literatures of the North Caucasus and Dagestan by L.G. Golubeva et al.
- ISBN 9781850653059.
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