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An annotated bibliography of Arabic and Berber in Libya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2016

Adam Benkato  and
Christophe Pereira
Adam Benkato
Affiliation:
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW), Berlin.
Christophe Pereira
Affiliation:
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris.
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Abstract

The Libyan varieties of both Arabic and Berber are among the least researched in their respective fields. In order to facilitate the study of these varieties, we present an annotated bibliography of all relevant research that could be identified up until the middle of 2016. With this, we aim to identify both the gaps in current and the possibilities for future research. Studies are grouped into Arabic and Berber sections, and subgrouped according to region. For Arabic, dialects of Tripoli and western regions, Benghazi and eastern regions, Fezzan and southern regions, as well as Jewish dialects, are treated. For Berber, varieties of Zwara, the Nafusa mountains, Sokna and El-Foqaha, and Awjila, and Tuareg are treated. Short introductions highlighting the most important studies precede bibliographic references and brief comments are given when of interest.

ان اللهجات الليبية العربية والامازيغية هي من المواضيع الاقل دراسة وبحثاً في مجالهما. ومن اجل تسهيل دراسة هذه اللهجات، نحن نقدم فهرساً مذيلاً لكل الابحاث المتعلقة بذلك والتي يمكن تحديدها حتى منتصف عام 2016. بهذا، نحن نهفد الى تحديد الفجوات في الدراسة الحالية وبحث امكانية دراسات مستقبلية. جميع الدراسات مصنفة تحت بابي العرب والامازيغ ومن ثم مصنفة حسب المنطقة. بالنسبة للعربية فقد تم تناول لهجات طرابلس والمناطق الغربية، وبنغازي والمناطق الشرقية، وفزان والمناطق الجنوبية، اللهجات اليهودية ايضاً. اما بالنسبة للامازيغية فقد تم دراسة اللهجات من زوارة، وجبل نفوسة، والسوكنة والفقها واوجلة، ولهجة الطوارق . كما ادرجنا مقدمات قصيرة تسلط الضوء على اهم الدراسات تسبق المراجع الببلوغرافية وتعليقات مختصرة كلما دعت الحاجة لذلك .

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Libyan Studies , Volume 47 , November 2016 , pp. 149 - 165
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Libyan Studies 2016 

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References

Notes

1 Behnstedt, Peter, 2013, ‘Dialectology’, in Owens, J. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics, Oxford University Press, Oxford: 321Google Scholar.

2 The authors wish to thank Jérôme Lentin in particular for substantially enlarging this bibliography with many references and suggestions. We are also grateful to Slavomír Čéplö for digging up material in the Slavic languages and to Marijn van Putten for some Berber-related references. Regarding conventions, we have given page numbers, where known, only for theses, and in cases where they may help to track down difficult to find publications. Titles in languages other than common European ones and Arabic are provided with a translation in brackets.

3 We were able to find a review of this early work: Jean Cantineau, 1941, Revue Africaine 85: 130–34.

4 The audio recording of this text may be found online at the Semitisches TonArchiv: bit.ly/1nsh2Xi.

5 Silvestre de Sacy, 1831, Grammaire arabe à l'usage des élèves de l’Ecole spéciale des langues orientales vivantes, 2 vols, Imprimerie Royal, Paris. See vol. 1, plates IVb, Va and Vb for the manuscript from Tripoli.

6 A few blogposts discussing data obtained from such outlets can be found at the following links: ‘“Hand” in NW Libyan/S Tunisian Berber’: http://bit.ly/1mYE4Vp; ‘Towards a Libyan/Tunisian Berber dialect atlas’: http://bit.ly/1RQhavj; and ‘Intra-Berber borrowing in Yefren’: http://bit.ly/1RHwCvz.