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Vowel-length Merger and its Consequences in Archaic Moroccan Arabic
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DOI https://doi.org/10.13173/zeitarabling.67.0012
Moroccan Arabic arose in the 7th and 8th centuries AD in Roman cities of northern Morocco, when predominantly non-Moroccan Berber troops in Arab-led armies introduced a contact Arabic, to which Late Latin (LL) speakers shifted over a few generations. LL substratum effects on the partially Berberized Arabic induced a merger of long and short vowels and a resulting phonemicization of stress, roughly as in Spanish Arabic. The length merger had observable but modest consequences for nominal and adjectival morphology. It was disruptive for inflectional verb morphology, triggering a major restructuring of triliteral hollow, strong, and (in some dialects) geminate verb-stem vocalism. Subsequent dialect mixing, due to the 12th–13th century influx of Hilalian beduin into the Maghreb and the development of a hybridized Moroccan koiné, has obscured and may eventually eliminate the archaic vowel and stress system. Verb morphology is most resistant to dialect leveling.
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