Özet:

In Hatay province, Arabic is effectively used like the official language Turkish by the bilingual people in daily life. Arabic is generally spoken orally in Hatay. However, Arabic is used in ‘Facebook’ which is one of the most prominent social media web page amongst the others, mainly based on Turkish alphabet. Writing with Latin letters in Arabic spoken countries’ social media is a popular incline recently and it is called FrancoArab by internet users. This study aims to observe the written Arabic in some Facebook groups such as Antakya, Leameee, Socialist Nusayriyyah and Arabic Proverbs and Idioms, etc. which involve information about Hatay province and its culture from the point of view of Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology. In the frame of the study, Arabic used by Latin letters will be examined and pointed out how bilingual individuals express themselves. It will be studied whether the language choice varies from one cultural group to another within the scope of language and identity

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