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The Arabic-speaking Mediterranean region spans from Morocco to Syria. Its two major languages (Arabic and French) were imposed by colonization during the nineteenth century. Here, we hypothesize that the practice of French language is diminishing in favor of English – the “langue hyper-centrale” (Calvet, La Méditerranée mer de nos langues. CNRS Éditions, Paris, p 268, 2016) – in the ancient English colonies (Egypt, Libya, Palestine), but with important local differences; and further we hypothesize that in the ancient French colonies (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Lebanon), English is being resisted. We use statistical data obtained from country governments, various organizations, and from our own field experience to explore this hypothesis.
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Ballais, JL., Al Amrawy, M., Al Dbiyat, M., Charbel, L., Geyer, B., Mezedjri, L. (2020). The Place of the French Language in Arabic-Speaking Mediterranean. In: Brunn, S., Kehrein, R. (eds) Handbook of the Changing World Language Map. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02438-3_8
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