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Plus some subplots: Raskolnikov's sister Darja, and Sonja if I remember correctly and her family.
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A couple of years ago I linked to Lameen Souag's Grammar of Algerian Darja; now I'm delighted to report he's started a language blog, Jabal al-Lughat, which means 'mountain of languages' in Arabic.
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But the book makes no attempt to distinguish between words taken from Arabic comparatively recently and words inherited from the common ancestor of Berber and Arabic, and seems to assume that any word found in both dialectal Arabic (Darja) and Berber must automatically be originally Arabic, rather than possibly being a borrowing from Berber into Arabic.
Jabal al-Lughat 2009
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