Mamluk Arabic

E243040

Arabic dialect historical variety of Arabic lingua franca

Mamluk Arabic is the historical variety of Arabic that developed and was used as the administrative and cultural lingua franca in Egypt and the Levant under the rule of the Mamluk Sultanate.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Mamluk Arabic canonical	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Arabic dialect ⓘ historical variety of Arabic ⓘ lingua franca ⓘ
associatedWith	Islamic scholarship in the Mamluk period ⓘ Mamluk literature ⓘ
characterizedBy	lexical borrowing from Turkic and Persian ⓘ mixture of Classical and vernacular features ⓘ
developedFrom	Classical Arabic ⓘ earlier Egyptian Arabic varieties ⓘ
developedUnder	Mamluk Sultanate ⓘ
era	Middle Arabic ⓘ
followedBy	Ottoman-era Arabic varieties in Egypt and the Levant ⓘ
hasInfluenceFrom	Coptic ⓘ Greek ⓘ Persian language ⓘ surface form: Persian Turkic languages ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn	Egyptian Arabic ⓘ Levantine Arabic ⓘ
languageFamily	Afroasiatic languages ⓘ surface form: Afro-Asiatic languages Semitic languages ⓘ
region	Egypt ⓘ Levant region ⓘ surface form: Levant Palestine ⓘ Syria ⓘ
status	extinct ⓘ
subfamily	Arabic ⓘ Central Semitic languages ⓘ
timePeriod	13th century ⓘ 14th century ⓘ 15th century ⓘ early 16th century ⓘ
usedAs	administrative language ⓘ chancery language ⓘ cultural lingua franca ⓘ
usedBy	Mamluk Sultanate ⓘ
usedIn	Aleppo ⓘ Cairo ⓘ Damascus ⓘ Egypt ⓘ Jerusalem ⓘ Levant region ⓘ surface form: Levant administrative documents ⓘ biographical dictionaries ⓘ chronicles ⓘ legal documents ⓘ literary prose ⓘ poetry ⓘ religious texts ⓘ
writingSystem	Arabic script ⓘ

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Subject: Mamluk Arabic
Description of subject: Mamluk Arabic is the historical variety of Arabic that developed and was used as the administrative and cultural lingua franca in Egypt and the Levant under the rule of the Mamluk Sultanate.

Referenced by (1)

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

Mamluk Sultanate → language → Mamluk Arabic ⓘ