A study of the language of selected 15th and 16th century aljamiado manuscripts.
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This thesis consists of a survey of the linguistic features
of datable aljamiado manuscripts, taken as nearly as possible
at twenty year intervals from 1429 to 1597, with the purpose of
ascertaining to what extent Morisco writings in Arabic character
shed any light on contemporary Spanish pronunciation and whether
any chronology of sound-change in Castilian can be recorded from
the collated evidence. The chief features examined are initial
F-, the sibilants, the plosive and fricative value of d and the
possibility of early instances of yeïsmo. On the whole it has been
found that the Moriscos were not innovators and the language of
even late sixteenth-century manuscripts still shows forms current
at the beginning of the century. The thesis includes transcriptions
of extracts from MSS. B.N.5319, J.1, B.N.5073/6/7/12, B.N. 4908/1,
B.N. 5364, T.13, T.16, B.N.5223 and J.30. There is also a Glossary
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Karp, JacquelineCollections
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