The Paths of the Spoken Arabic Dialects in Borrowing and Arabizing the Words of the English Language

Abstract

This research seeks to gain insight into the paths used by contemporary spoken Arabic dialects in borrowing words from the English language, Arabizing them, and deriving from them in the manner of Arabic and its tones, conjugations, and morphology.  It looks at how the foreign word blends into the colloquial spoken language, and becomes part of its linguistic lexicon with which some of its lacking semantic fields are filled in the expression. On colloquial technical terms, and for the sake of completing this study, the research traces the journey of some borrowed English words in the spoken Arabic dialects, and examines some foreign words that have leaked into modern Arab culture as a result of linguistic friction. Contemporary vernacular, especially among young people who are open to modern technology, social networking sites and online shopping.The research concluded that the users of the linguistic borrowings Arabized and adapted them verbally according to the Arabic forms of those words, and by analogy with the mechanisms of derivation of the verbs in the Arabic language. Where the English word is formed from letters that form the original substance of the word, and when this word is borrowed, a change occurs in the structure of the origin and the connotation. The use of extraneous and borrowed terms remains confined being audibly heard rather than written, but the large number of these words circulating on people’s tongues today warns of the infiltration of these words into writing, and the beginnings of these words have begun to appear in the writings of some journalists and youth groups. And there is an inter-language that began to be born from the convergence of English with colloquial Arabic, and it mediates between the classical Arabic language and the spoken colloquial Arabic dialects, and this language has become of a social nature that separates young people from their linguistic group.