Mozarabic Language
Mozarabic was a continuum of closely related Romance dialects spoken in Muslim-dominated areas of the Iberian Peninsula during the early stages of the Romance languages' development in Iberia. Mozarabic descends from Late Latin and early Romance dialects spoken in the Iberian Peninsula from the 5th to the 8th centuries, and was spoken until the 14th century.
This set of dialects came to be called the Mozarabic language by 19th century Spanish scholars, though there was never a common standard. The word, Mozarab is a loanword from Arabic مُستَعرَب musta`rab, meaning "Arabized".
Read more about Mozarabic Language: Native Name, Scripts, Morphology and Phonetics, Documents in Mozarabic (Old Southern Iberian Romance), Sample Text (11th Century)
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