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Document Details : Title: A 17th-18th Century Manuscript in Spoken Egyptian Arabic Subtitle: Part One: Text and Translation Author(s): PALVA, H. Journal: Le Muséon Volume: 120 Issue: 3-4 Date: 2007 Pages: 395-434 DOI: 10.2143/MUS.120.3.2024682 Abstract : The text published and discussed below in one of the most important documents of pre-19th century Spoken Egyptian Arabic. Although written in Hebrew characters, it is not an example of Judaeo-Arabic; rather, it is a representative sample of the language of narrative style used by storytellers in the cities of Lower Egypt in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. |
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