Abstract
The aim of this article is to present the current sociolinguistic situation of the Cypriot Maronite community and report on recent efforts to revitalize its language, Cypriot Arabic or Sanna. After a brief historical account, the article focuses on the sociodemographic and sociolinguistic characteristics of the community, which has steadily declined ever since its establishment on the island of Cyprus in the seventh to eighth century AD. Finally, the article discusses the revitalization efforts undertaken since 2007 as well as recent political and social developments that (de)favour the process of revitalization.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- A story at the periphery: Documenting, standardising and reviving Cypriot Arabic
- The use of official languages in electronic communications in the Valencian local administration
- Language use and intergenerational transmission of heritage Veneto in the rural area of Santa Teresa, Brazil
- Yucatec Maya language planning and the struggle of the linguistic standardization process
- Language shift and language revival in Crimea
- Language and religion in Central Ukraine
- A sociolinguistic approach to implicit language attitudes towards historically white English accents among young L1 South African indigenous language speakers
- A sociolinguistic analysis of the use of English loanwords inflected with Arabic morphemes as slang in Amman, Jordan
- Commodification of African languages in linguistic landscapes of rural Northern Cape Province, South Africa
- Book Review
- Critical sociolinguistic research methods: Studying language issues that matter