Edition and Translation of Five Moroccan Letters in Middle Arabic (Sixteenth Century) Preserved in the National Archive of Torre do Tombo
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https://doi.org/10.3989/alqantara.2022.009Keywords:
Middle Arabic, Arabic dialectology, Torre do Tombo National Archive, History of Morocco, History of PortugalAbstract
This paper presents an edition and translation into Spanish of five letters preserved in the National Archive of Torre do Tombo (Portugal). These documents date back to the first half of the sixteenth century and belong to a collection of correspondence from the Portuguese possessions in North Africa. These letters are remarkable from a linguistic point of view because they are written in Middle Arabic, a variety of language that combines both dialectal and standard variants of Arabic, thus displaying considerable grammatical divergences in what concerns the norms of Classical Arabic.
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