The Language of Musta'rab Jews: The Names of the Holidays in Peqtʿin as a Test Case

This article treats the Arabic-Hebrew interlingual contact that emerges from examination of the language of the Mustaʿ‘rab community in Israel. Based on a linguistic field study carried out among the Jews of Peqi‘ʿin, it examines a unique phenomenon in their spoken dialect: the penetration of Arabic...

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Main Author: Henshke, Yehudit (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2018]
In: Journal of Semitic studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 63, Issue: 1, Pages: 201-220
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