Latín, bereber, afrorrománico, iberorrománico y romance andalusí. Interacción, desaparición y pervivencia de lenguas. (original) (raw)

The substitution of arabic for Latin as the language of culture and administration was the most important linguistic historical change in the South and West Mediterranean between 439 and 929 A.D. In the study of the linguistic situation of Africa, there has been a tendency to reduce an intricate maze to formulae. those formulae, even when they are accurate, contribute mostly to divert the attention from the process to center it on the results, the loss of Latin. but Latin, as it was spoken in 439, continued its evolution into Afro-Romance variants or dialects, which did not become new Romance languages. nevertheless, they were used by speakers as variants of their common language. How long that situation remained, and how stable it was, is of great interest. the continuity in their use of those Afro-Romance forms of speech will help clarify some aspects of the Arabic conquest of al-Maghreb and al-Andalus and its linguistic consequences.