ABSTRACT
An attempt is made in this chapter to show, in the linguistic process of forming Siculo-Arabic, some kind .of
patterning of Romance and Greek phonological interferences such as, deletion or substitution of sounds, and morphologically the attachment of Latin and Greek suffixes which distinguished the Siculo-Arabic register as a synthetic type. With loan words however, they represent the spoken form of the Siculo-Arabic, ie. exhibiting the analytic type (Diagram Five). The Siculo-Middle Arabic on the other hand, is based on written documents, the gara?id, with Classical and Spoken Arabic features as we shall see in Chapter Eight.
