The present book will be the first to center on the status of Arabic as a minority language. In the first instance it will focus attention on the existence of many varieties of Arabic outside of the Arabic world. It will further contribute to the growing literature on minority languages, placing a special emphasis on the relationship between minority status and language form.Contents:Introduction, Jonathan OwensHistorical PerspectivesThe Arabic Language Among the Mozarabs of Toledo during the 12th and 13th Centuries, Ignacio FerrandoArabic as a Tool for Expressing Jewish and Romani Ethnic Identity. A Prolegomena to a Typology of Arabic in Non-Arabic Communities, Paul WexlerThe Arabic Linguistic and Cultural Tradition in Daghestan: an Historical Overview, Anna ZelkinaArabic Ethnic MinoritiesModelling Intrasentential Codeswitching: a Comparative Study of Algerian/French in Algeria and Moroccan/Dutch in the Netherlands, Louis Boumans and Dominique CaubetThe Arabic Speech of Bactria (Afghanistan), Charles KiefferArabic as a Minority Language in Israel, Rafael TalmonMaking a Fish of a Friend. Waris: the Secret Language of Arab Koranic School Students in Borno, Jonathan Owens and Jidda Hassan Loanwords in Nigerian Arabic: a uantitative Approach, Jonathan Owens Cross-Ethnic and Non-Arab Perspectives The Arabic Dialects in the Turkish Province of Hatay and the Aramaic Dialects in the Syrian Mountains of alamun: Two Minority Languages Compared, Werner ArnoldLoanwords in Algerian Berber, Fadila BrahimiMoroccan: a Language in Emergence, Utz MaasLanguage Legitimization: Arabic in Multiethnic Contexts, Fadila Brahimi and Jonathan OwensIndex of languages and varieties of ArabicIndex of placesIndex of subjectsList of mapsMap 1 - Arabic ethnic minoritiesMap 2 - Case Studies in the current collectionMap 3 - Approximate ethno-linguistic composition of the northeastern Caucasus c. 1830Map 4 - Arabic in northeast Nigeria and environsMap 5 - Three Maiduguri neighborhoodsMap 6 - Languages of the alamunMap 7 - The Arabic-speaking minorities in the province of Hatay