The Quadripartite Sociolinguistic Status of Arabic in Turkey: Heritage Language Speaker Ideologies

İngilizce (OpenAlex)

Against the background of an increasingly globalised world, the sociolinguistic status of a heritage language in a country might diversify in line with the changing demographic and sociopolitical environment, and, as such, might inform a multiplicity of ideologies speakers hold about their languages. In the present study, we investigate this diversity in the context of the expanding sociolinguistic landscape of Arabic in Turkey, which we analyse across four different sociolinguistic statuses: as a regional minority language, as an immigrant minority language, as the native language of globalisation-induced transient communities, and as a language that has a historically and religiously ingrained relationship with Turkish. Reporting on a face-to-face interview study that we conducted with the heritage speakers of the Mardin dialect of Arabic living in İstanbul, we investigate how the HL ideologies are constructed with respect to these status differentials in the context of domestic migration to İstanbul.