Frontmatter -- Contents -- Addresses of contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Historical perspectives -- The Arabic language among the Mozarabs of Toledo during the 12th and 13th centuries -- Arabic as a tool for expressing Jewish and Romani ethnic identity. (a prolegomenon to a typology of Arabic in non-Arabic speaking communities) -- The Arabic linguistic and cultural tradition in Daghestan: an historical overview -- Modelling intrasentential codeswitching: a comparative study of Algerian/French in Algeria and Moroccan/Dutch in the Netherlands -- The Arabic speech of Bactria (Afghanistan) -- Arabic as a minority language in Israel -- Making a fish of a friend. Waris: the secret language of Arab koranic school students in Borno -- Loanwords in Nigerian Arabic: a quantitative approach -- Cross-ethnic and non-Arab perspectives -- The Arabic dialects in the Turkish province of Hatay and the Aramaic dialects in the Syrian mountains of Qalamûn: two minority languages compared -- Loanwords in Algerian Berber -- Moroccan: a language in emergence -- Language legitimization: Arabic in multiethnic contexts -- Index of languages and varieties of Arabic -- Index of places -- Index of subjects -- Backmatter