Recording session done at a table outside a cafe in Tripoli.
CORPAFROAS is a project funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), for 2006-2011, and coordinated by Amina Mettouchi at the University of Nantes. The three research units involved in the project are: LLING (University of Nantes); LLACAN (INALCO-CNRS); LACNAD-CREAM (INALCO). Several international researchers were associated to the project as well. CorpAfroAs is the first corpus of spoken Afroasiatic languages that presents sound-indexed data, with elaborate annotations. It is also unique in that it is freely accessible, and is accompanied by software, tools, and publications that will make it easier for field linguists to contribute to CORPAFROAS, or compile their own corpus, without having to go through the complex preparatory theoretical and technical procedures that we have worked on.
Tripoli Arabic is spoken by more or less two million people living in Tripoli, capital of Libya. From a linguistic point of view, Tripoli Arabic belongs to the "Maghrebi Arabic" group. It is characterized by borrowings from Turkish and Italian, and more recently by borrowings from English and a strong influence of Modern Standard Arabic.
Tripoli Arabic spoken by approximately 2 million speakers in Tripoli (Libya).
In this recording, my informant tells a folktale concerning a lady and fishes.
Nizar speaks about burdim, a Libyan dish.
Learnt since 2000 for research purposes. Not used for communication in everyday life. Not used on a regular basis since, only in Libya, with Arabic speakers, or for research purposes.
Mother tongue. Not used in the session.