This is such an interesting Language-on-the-move blog post by @zabanwala.bsky.social
on the shifting role of ‘broken Arabic’. I read it and watched all the TikTok and Instagram videos it talks about with great fascination! ⬇️
Tazin Abdullah
New on Language-on-the-Move: @zabanwala.bsky.social and colleagues explain how arabi mukassar (‘broken Arabic’) is changing from an object of mockery to a marketing tool
languageonthemove.com/broken-arabi...
*** By Rizwan Ahmad, Salma Dhailia, and Mahla Almeraikhi *** Es fi: ‘Broken’ Arabic in the Gulf When you walk through the streets of any Gulf country, you may hear a language that is neither Arabic…
