Andalusian Arabic

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Andalusian Arabic was a historical variety of Arabic once spoken in Al-Andalus (the Iberian Peninsula under Muslim rule), notable for its influence on modern Spanish and North African dialects.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Andalusi Arabic 5
Andalusian Arabic canonical 2
Andalusian Arabic culture 1

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf extinct language variety
historical Arabic dialect
associatedWith Caliphate of Córdoba
Taifas of Al-Andalus
surface form: Taifa kingdoms of al-Andalus

Emirate of Córdoba
surface form: Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba
closelyRelatedTo Maghrebi Arabic
Maghrebi Arabic
surface form: Moroccan Arabic
declineCause Reconquista
surface form: Christian Reconquista of Iberian Peninsula

expulsion of Muslims from Iberia
language shift to Romance varieties
developedFrom Classical Arabic
documentedIn Arabic poetry of al-Andalus
jarchas
kharjas
medieval Andalusi texts
hasAlternativeName Andalusian Arabic
surface form: Andalusi Arabic

Andalusian Arabic
surface form: Hispano-Arabic
hasNotableFeature contact-induced change with Romance dialects
extensive lexical borrowing into Spanish
merger of some interdental and sibilant consonants
phonological simplification of consonant clusters
vocalic influence from Romance languages
influenced Maghrebi Arabic
surface form: Algerian Arabic

Andalusian Spanish
Ibero-Romance lexicon
Maghrebi Arabic
surface form: Maghrebi Arabic dialects

Maghrebi Arabic
surface form: Moroccan Arabic

Mozarabic language
surface form: Mozarabic

Spanish
surface form: Spanish language

Maghrebi Arabic
surface form: Tunisian Arabic
influencedBy Berber languages
Romance languages of Iberia
languageBranch Semitic languages
languageFamily Afro-Asiatic languages
legacy Arabic loanwords in Spanish
Arabic toponyms in Iberia
loanwords in Catalan
loanwords in Portuguese
substrate influence in North African Arabic
region Andalusia
surface form: al-Andalus
spokenIn Andalusia
surface form: Al-Andalus

Iberian Peninsula
subfamilyOf Arabic
surface form: Arabic language
timePeriod 8th century to 15th century
usedBy Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus
some Christian communities in al-Andalus
some Jewish communities in al-Andalus
usedDuring Muslim rule in Iberian Peninsula
writingSystem Arabic script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kingdom of Granada language Andalusian Arabic
Mozarabic language usedAlongside Andalusian Arabic
this entity surface form: Andalusi Arabic
Mālaqa associatedWithCulture Andalusian Arabic
this entity surface form: Andalusian Arabic culture
Tlemcen Arabic hasInfluenceFrom Andalusian Arabic
this entity surface form: Andalusi Arabic
Islamic West historicalLanguage Andalusian Arabic
this entity surface form: Andalusi Arabic
Andalusian Arabic hasAlternativeName Andalusian Arabic
this entity surface form: Hispano-Arabic
Andalusian Arabic hasAlternativeName Andalusian Arabic
this entity surface form: Andalusi Arabic
Taifa of Málaga language Andalusian Arabic
this entity surface form: Andalusi Arabic
Arabic language continuum hasPart Andalusian Arabic