Abstract:

Language as a living phenomenon, reflects its local environment. Arabic language, a non-native tongue in Nigeria, is infiltrated with several indigenous languages. This process is known as language interference. Just as the way the imperial languages have been domesticated and nativized by the non-native cultivators, the Arabic language in Nigeria is not an exception. The use of indigenized Arabic forms a collective identity for the Nigerian writers of Arabic to distinguish their literary outputs from other Arabic literary productions. Therefore, this study aims to explore this phenomenon through the lens of Ahmad’s Ahl al-Qurā and al-Hijri’s Khadim al-Waṭan.

Bio:

Mr. Ibrahim Ismail is a graduate of University of Ibadan where he had B.A in Arabic and Islamic Studies in 2015. In 2019, he also earned an M.A in Arabic Language and Literature from the same University. He was awarded the Sanad scholarship in 2019 by the government of Qatar to study Comparative Literature at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.