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Name: Mozarabic Type: Language Once Spoken in: Spain Code: mxi Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: LINGUIST List Families: Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite) Parent Subgroup: Mozarabic (moza) Brief Description: Mozarabic was not so much a language as a mutually intelligible continuum of Romance dialects spoken in Muslim dominated areas of the Iberian Peninsula after the time of the Arab conquest. There was never a common standard. The name comes from the Arabic word مستعرب - musta'rab, i.e. "Arabized" or "trying to be Arab". The name used by speakers of the language was "Latinus" or "Latino". This word survives in "Ladino", the name used for the Romance dialect spoken by Sephardic Jews. It was primarily written in the Arabic alphabet. It first appears in the 9th century in kharjas or choruses inserted into Arabic lyrics called muwashshahs, and shows a rather archaic form of Romance. Extinct c 1400 AD.

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Linguist List Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed