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Arabic influences on Tigre: A preliminary evaluation

Bulakh, Maria, Kogan, Leonid·2011·Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
DOI 10.1017/s0041977x10000698
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Tigre, an Ethio-Semitic language spoken in Eritrea by a predominantly Muslim population, is known to have remained in intensive contact with Arabic since at least the nineteenth century. In the present article we attempt to survey the lexical and grammatical features of Tigre which are potentially attributable to Arabic influence. The genealogical proximity of Arabic and Ethio-Semitic complicates the task, as borrowed features and common retentions are not always easily distinguishable. In the lexical domain, the Arabic impact is undoubtedly conspicuous: thus, even in the core vocabulary Arabic loanwords are more prominent than in any other Ethio-Semitic language. Nevertheless, for many individual lexemes the borrowing hypothesis remains to be substantiated. Recent Arabic influence is probably responsible for a few relatively superficial features of Tigre phonetics and morphology. Several more deeply-rooted features may in principle be due to a more ancient and more intensive contact with Arabic: the specific influence of the ejectives on the vowels; the grammatical categories of singulative and diminutive; the diversity of verbal noun patterns in the basic stem; and several types of broken plural formation.

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Authors
Bulakh, M., & Kogan, L.
Affiliations
Russian State University for the Humanities (RU)
Corresponding author
  • Bulakh, Maria
  • Kogan, Leonid
ORCID
Venue
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2011-02
Volume
74
Issue
1
Pages
1-39
ISSN
  • 0041-977X (ISSN-L)
  • 1474-0699
DOI
10.1017/s0041977x10000698
OpenAlex
W2113567060
Semantic Scholar
e7fd0c5868e62abe09f4f3f4db653c0660f4007e
Cited by
7
References
49
Citations by year
2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2013: 2
FWCI
5.29
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 35 d)
Locations
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistics and language evolution
Keywords
Tigre language, Arabic influence, language contact, Arabic loanwords, lexical borrowing, phonetic borrowing, morphological borrowing, diminutives, verbal nouns, broken plural

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