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BRIEF NOTES ON THE CONCEPTS OF LISĀN AND LUGHA WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE MEDIEVAL BERBER LANGAUGE THROUGH SOME EXAMPLES

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Meouak M.

Asian and African Studies

2016

vol. 25

issue 2

266 – 280

This study seeks to subject to scrutiny a range of data concerning some regional variants of the Berber language in medieval Maghreb. Offering information taken from different types of Arabic sources, we examine concepts of “language” possibly embodied in the term lisān (plural alsina, alsun), and of “dialect(s)” illustrated by the use of the word lugha (plural lughāt). The content presented enables an exploration of the ideas that Arabic writers used the language as an instrument for transmitting facts, and thereby establishing the outlines of debate as to whether the Berber language occupied a privileged position in medieval Maghrebian society.

BERBER LANGUAGE AND TOPONYMY THROUGH HAGIOGRAPHIC SOURCES WRITTEN IN MEDIEVAL MARGHEB: EXEMPLE OF 'Da' amat al-yaqin fi za'dimat al-muttaqin d'al-'Azafi (m. 633/1236)' (Langue et toponymie berberes dans les sources hagiographiques du Maghreb..)

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Meouak M.

Rocznik Orientalistyczny

2008

vol. 61

issue 1

56-72

The discussion on the Medieval Berber language is usually reduced to the linguistic materials without serious intent to restitute the historical background. This study deals with some linguistic and historical questions about Western North Africa during the Middle Ages. The aim of our research is to study the Berber language through some hagiographical sources written in Arabic with several fragments and words in Berber. The study contains a first part which deals with the linguistic problems in the Maghreb during the Middle Ages. At the second level, we do a short literary and historical presentation of the book of 'Al-'Azafi'. Then, in a third part, we give the linguistic material found in the text : phrases and toponymy. In the fourth and last part, after a sum up we invite the scholars to go on with these researchs for reaching a new and better knowledge of the history of Medieval Maghreb like in social history, informations on the ancient Berber language and onomastics.

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BRIEF NOTES ON THE CONCEPTS OF LISĀN AND LUGHA WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE MEDIEVAL BERBER LANGAUGE THROUGH SOME EXAMPLES

BERBER LANGUAGE AND TOPONYMY THROUGH HAGIOGRAPHIC SOURCES WRITTEN IN MEDIEVAL MARGHEB: EXEMPLE OF 'Da' amat al-yaqin fi za'dimat al-muttaqin d'al-'Azafi (m. 633/1236)' (Langue et toponymie berberes dans les sources hagiographiques du Maghreb..)