Dialect Levelling in Tunisian Arabic: Towards a New Spoken Standard

Language Contact and Language Conflict in Arabic: Variations on a Sociolinguistic Theme

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 24-40

  Gibson, Maik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

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EID: 85184551040     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203037218-8     Document Type: Chapter

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