Herin, Bruno and Younes, Igor and Al-wer, Enam and Al-Sirour, Youssef (2021) The classification of Bedouin Arabic: insights from Northern Jordan. Languages, 7 (1). p. 1. DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7010001
Herin, Bruno and Younes, Igor and Al-wer, Enam and Al-Sirour, Youssef (2021) The classification of Bedouin Arabic: insights from Northern Jordan. Languages, 7 (1). p. 1. DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7010001
Herin, Bruno and Younes, Igor and Al-wer, Enam and Al-Sirour, Youssef (2021) The classification of Bedouin Arabic: insights from Northern Jordan. Languages, 7 (1). p. 1. DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7010001
Abstract
The goal of the present paper is to provide a revaluation of the classification of the Bedouin dialects of Northern Arabia and the Southern Levant, based on published or publicly available data and on first-hand data recently collected amongst some Bedouin tribes in Northern Jordan. We suggest extending previous classifications that identify three types of dialects, namely A (ʿnizi), B (šammari), and C (šāwi). Although intermediary or mixed types combining šammari features with šāwi features were already noted, our data suggest that further combinations are possible, either because they had so far been unnoticed or because recent levelling and dialect mixing have blurred the boundaries between some of the varieties.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | This article belongs to the Special Issue The Classification of Arabic Dialects: Traditional Approaches, New Proposals, and Methodological Problems |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Arabic dialectology; classification; Bedouin Arabic; Jordan; Masāʿīd |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Language and Linguistics, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 07 Jan 2022 17:24 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 21:22 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/31793 |
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