Download or read book the Great and Marvelous Akarek and Other Tunisian Tales written by Mohamed Bacha and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four fantastic stories for children that can also be enjoyed by all types of readers. Undiscovered folktales from the ancient, rich and vibrating Tunisian oral culture. This book is very funny to read but also valuable to exploit as cultural resource about Tunisia. You will also encounter many splendid proverbs infusing the culture of Tunisia. 1- The Great & Marvelous Akarek: The adventures of Akarek who, after accidentally killing 7 flies, starts a hilarious adventure! 2- Sabra and Gadanfar: after a divorce, a girl flees her village to live with a lion. The lion has strange humane, manly eyes. They have a happy savage life, until the unexpected occurs. 3- The Strange Love Story Of Gador and Baya: a strange love story by all criteria. A bizarre and almost supernatural tale. 4- The Golden Daughter: portrays the weird night of a gold worshipper, greedy wealthy man. This book is Ideal to exploit as reading material in ESL teaching classrooms. A certainly entertaining and instructive reading resource for children and older readers!
Download or read book Four Fantastic Tales from Tunisia written by Mohamed Bacha and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-06-16 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four original Tunisian tales selected from the rich oral literature. Inspired and adapted from marvellous folktales told by the very popular Tunisian storyteller: Abdelaziz El Aroui, in the 60s/70s. Sabra and Sultan: In 'Ayoun Essid', an isolated Tunisian village, where locals communicate mainly through proverbs lived Sabra, an ambitious and idealist girl. After a divorce, she flees her village and the malicious gossip to live with a lion with mysteriously humane eyes. Together, they found the utmost happiness and enjoyment; a semi-human, semi- animal life. Sabra tried to satisfy Sultan's inner longing to be a Man! But she was also satisfying her own old desire for The Perfect Happiness. Was she wise to do so? Didn't she escape 'The World of Men?' An oral tale adapted to written English, keeping the magical spirit of the original. The story is built around a core Tunisian proverb: 'Malicious words dwell in the heart...', infused with other proverbs: each proverb playing a crucial role in the plot. The Couscous Genie: Yet another story where a genie realizes wishes. However, this Genie is really unconventional and is typically Tunisian as he comes out of a Couscous steamer! The Hanged man and The Dead Girl relates the strange circumstances of a love story in the old Medina. A bizarre and almost supernatural story. The Great And Marvelous Akarek is an original tunisian adaptation of a well-known story: A frail tailor who, after accidentally killing seven flies, is extremely proud of his strength and goes through a journey full of hilarious adventures!
Download or read book The Big Book of Tunisian Arabic written by Carthage Translation and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BIG BOOK OFTUNISIAN ARABICCARTHAGE TRANSLATION ContentsPart I Language CoursePart II Tunisian LyricsPart III 20 Stories & Folktales in Tunisian Arabic (bilingual English / Tunisian)Part IV Tunisian Proverbs
Download or read book I Lost My Arrow in a Kankan Tree written by Noni Lichtveld and published by Lothrop Lee & Shepard. This book was released on 1993 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jakono's lost arrow leads to good fortune in this cumulative story set in Surinam.
Download or read book Mido in Tunisian Arabic written by Matthew Aldrich and published by Lingualism.com. This book was released on with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for young-at-heart adult intermediate and advanced learners of Tunisian Arabic, this book contains 10 chapters of similar length (around 1,000 words each), along with illustrations, English translations, and footnotes. Mido and his family invite you to join them on their everyday adventures in Tunis as you listen and read along, learning about life for modern Tunisians while improving your Tunisian Arabic. The accompanying audio can be downloaded for free from www.lingualism.com (This book is also available in Modern Standard Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, and Levantine Arabic.)
Download or read book Tunisian Folktales written by Mohamed Bacha and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a selection of five fantastic Tunisian folktales that can be enjoyed by children and grown-ups alike. Five original and unique stories from the ancient, rich and vibrating Tunisian oral culture in which storytelling represented a major constituent. This book is unny to read but is also a valuable cultural resource about Tunisia. These folktales also contain many splendid proverbs that infuse the Tunisian culture . This book is Ideal to exploit as reading material in ESL teaching classrooms. A certainly entertaining and instructive reading resource for children and older readers!
Download or read book Loanwords in the World s Languages written by Martin Haspelmath and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This landmark publication in comparative linguistics is the first comprehensive work to address the general issue of what kinds of words tend to be borrowed from other languages. The authors have assembled a unique database of over 70,000 words from 40 languages from around the world, 18,000 of which are loanwords. This database allows the authors to make empirically founded generalizations about general tendencies of word exchange among languages." --Book Jacket.
Download or read book The Arabic Language written by C. H. M. Versteegh and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This general introduction to the Arabic Language, now available in paperback, places special emphasis on the history and variation of the language. Concentrating on the difference between the two types of Arabic - the Classical standard language and the dialects - Kees Versteegh charts the history and development of the Arabic language from the earliest beginnings to modern times. The reader is offered a solid grounding in the structure of the language, its historical context and its use in various literary and non-literary genres, as well as an understanding of the role of Arabic as a cultural, religious and political world language. Intended as an introductory guide for students of Arabic, it will also be a useful tool for discussions both from a historical linguistic and from a socio-linguistic perspective. Coverage includes all aspects of the history of Arabic, the Arabic linguistic tradition, Arabic dialects and Arabic as a world language. Links are made between linguistic history and cultural history, while the author emphasises the role of contacts between Arabic and other languages. This important book will be an ideal text for all those wishing to acquire an understanding or develop their knowledge of the Arabic language.
Download or read book Tunisian and Libyan Arabic Dialects Common Trends Recent Developments Diachronic Aspects written by Ritt-Benmimoun, Veronika (ed.) and published by Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tripartite volume with 18 contributions in English and French is dedicated to Tunisian and Libyan Arabic dialects which form part of the socalled Maghrebi or Western group of dialects. There are ten contributions that investigate aspects of Tunisian dialects, five contributions on Libyan dialects, and three comparative articles that go beyond the geographical and linguistic borders of Tunisia and Libya. The focus of "Tunisian and Libyan Arabic Dialects" is on linguistic aspects but a wider range of topics is also addressed, in particular questions regarding digital corpora and digital humanities. These foci and other subjects investigated, such as the syntactic studies and the presentation of recently gathered linguistic data, bear reference to the subtitle "Common Trends – Recent Developments – Diachronic Aspects".
Download or read book Tunisian Arabic in 30 Lessons written by Mohamed Bacha and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-12-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "practical textbook to learn Tunisian Arabic the easy way"--The cover
Download or read book The Semitic Languages written by Stefan Weninger and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handbook The Semitic Languages offers a comprehensive reference tool for Semitic Linguistics in its broad sense. It is not restricted to comparative Grammar, although it covers also comparative aspects, including classification. By comprising a chapter on typology and sections with sociolinguistic focus and language contact, the conception of the book aims at a rather complete, unbiased description of the state of the art in Semitics. Articles on individual languages and dialects give basic facts as location, numbers of speakers, scripts, numbers of extant texts and their nature, attestation where appropriate, and salient features of the grammar and lexicon of the respective variety. The handbook is the most comprehensive treatment of the Semitic language family since many decades.
Download or read book Tunisian Arabic in 24 Lessons written by Mohamed Bacha and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tunisian Arabic in 24 Lessons is an enjoyable, easy-to-read self-instruction book destined to native speakers of English who want to learn Tunisian Arabic, or "derja" the dialect of Arabic as spoken in Tunisia. A linguistic/cultural guide to travelers to this beautiful North African country and those who need to communicate with Tunisians worldwide. Language Students and linguists will also find this book a valuable resource for their study and research, as it contains authentic linguistic data and original syntactic insights into Tunisian Arabic; Grammar similarities and differences are outlined and explained within a comparative approach that is accessible to specialist and non-specialist learners at the same time. In this book, the focus is on speech: this is why a combination Romanized Transliteration and phonetic transcription is used and the reader will not need to worry about or discouraged by the difficult Arabic script from the start! it is like learning Arabic through English! For learners who need it, an additional companion has been recently published: "201 Tunisian Arabic Verbs." It lists alphabetically the most common Tunisian verbs, with exemplary sentences and phrases drawn from the natural speech of Tunisia.
Download or read book Language Contact and Language Conflict written by Martin Pütz and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The selected articles compiled in the present volume are based on contributions prepared for the 17th International L.A.U.D. (Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg) Symposium held at the University of Duisburg on 23-27 March 1992. The 13 papers in this book focus on problems and issues of intercultural communication. The first part is devoted to theoretical aspects related to the interaction of language and culture and deals with the issue from anthropological, cognitive, and linguistic points of view. Part II raises issues of language policy and language planning such as the manipulation of language in intercultural contact; it includes case studies pertaining to multilingual settings, for example in Africa, Australia, Melanesia, and Europe. The volume opens with a foreword by Dell H. Hymes.
Download or read book Tamazight of the Ayt Ndhir written by Thomas G. Penchoen and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arabic Language written by Anwar G. Chejne, Chejne and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arabic, with its rich literary heritage, is one of the major languages of the world. it is spoken by about one hundred million people inhabiting a wide and important area of the Middle East. Yet the language and its significant role in history are little known in the English-speaking countries except among specialists. This book will, it is hoped, help to introduce the language and demonstrate its importance to a wider audience. --
Download or read book Late Punic Epigraphy written by K. Jongeling and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This introduction to the study of late Punic epigraphy discusses more than 100 Neo-Punic and Latino-Punic inscriptions. The concise commentary accompanying each text along with the appended glossaries make this book ideal for the use of students."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Diglossia and Language Contact written by Lotfi Sayahi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a detailed analysis of language contact in North Africa and explores the historical presence of the languages used in the region, including the different varieties of Arabic and Berber as well as European languages. Using a wide range of data sets, it provides a comprehensive analysis of the mechanisms of language contact under classical diglossia and societal bilingualism, examining multiple cases of oral and written code-switching. It also describes contact-induced lexical and structural change in such situations and discusses the possible appearance of new varieties within the context of diglossia. Examples from past diglossic situations are examined, including the situation in Muslim Spain and the Maltese Islands. An analysis of the current situation of Arabic vernaculars, not only in the Maghreb but also in other Arabic-speaking areas, is also presented. This book will appeal to anyone interested in language contact, the Arabic language, and North Africa.
