African Romance

African Romance

language
name=African Romance
region=North Africa
extinct=may have survived as late as the 16th century
familycolor=Indo-European
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African Romance is an extinct Romance language that was once spoken in North Africa (Algeria and Morocco). Little is known about this language that may have been spoken until the 17th century.

It is believed that African Romance evolved from Latin as it was spoken in North Africa and it was subsequently supplanted by Arabic after the Muslim conquest.

ee also

Other Romance languages spoken in North Africa before the European colonization were the Mediterranean Lingua Franca, a pidgin with Arabic and Romance influences, and Ladino, a dialect of Spanish brought by Sephardic Jews.

References

*Vermondo Brugnatelli, " [http://www.brugnatelli.net/vermondo/articoli/Trieste.html I prestiti latini in berbero: un bilancio] ", in: M. Lamberti, L. Tonelli (eds.), "Afroasiatica Tergestina. Papers from the 9th Italian Meeting of Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic) Linguistics, Trieste, April 23-24, 1998", Padova, Unipress, 1999, pp. 325-332
*Franco Fanciullo, "Un capitolo della "Romania submersa": il latino africano", in: D. Kremer (ed.), "Actes du XVIIIe Congrès International de Linguistique et de Philologie Romane - Universitè de Trèves (Trier) 1986", tome I, Tübingen, Niemeyer, 1992,162-187 pp.
*Tadeusz Lewicki, "Une langue romane oubliée de l'Afrique du Nord. Observations d'un arabisant", "Rocznik Orient". XVII (1958), pp. 415-480
*Hugo Schuchardt, "Die romanischen Lehnwörter im Berberischen", Wien 1918 (82 pp.)


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