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Mediterranean Language Review
Mediterr Lang Rev
ISSN: 0724-7567.
The Mediterranean Language Review is an interdisciplinary forum for the investigation of language and culture in the Mediterranean, past and present, for example: linguistic contact and diffusion in the Mediterranean area and its hinterland; interaction of language and culture in the region; case studies of linguistic relativity; culturally determined language behaviour; the historical evolution and present state of languages spoken by small nations and ethnic minorities (e.g. Berber, Albanian in Italy and Greece, Neo-Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, Judezmo, the language of Gypsies, etc.); languages problems endemic to small speaker communities in the region; ethnolinguistic research on Bedouin; religion and language: confessional af?liation and language use; liturgical languages; ethnolinguistic studies on island communities in the Mediterranean (Corsica, Sardinia, Cyprus, Malta, the Greek islands, etc.); linguistic obsolescence; linguistic strati?cation: areal typology and the languages of the Mediterranean littoral; substratal phenomena; interlinguas: Kultursprachen of the Mediterranean (Greek, Latin, Italian, Arabic, etc.); the lexical impact of globalization; Mediterranean Lingua Franca; maritime linguistics; lexical convergence; relics of colonial and maritime English, e.g. in Maltese, Egyptian Arabic, Cypriot Greek, etc.; marginal language; approaches to Mediterranean lexicology (Worte und Sachen); ethnolinguistic studies of traditional professions; the levelling linguistic impact of globalization.
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