Northwest Arabian Arabic
Northwest Arabian Arabic | |
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A Bedawi-speaking Bedouin person, 1913 | |
Native to | Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia & Syria |
Native speakers | 2.24 million (2015-2016)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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Arabic alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
avl |
Glottolog |
east2690 [2] |
Northwest Arabian Arabic is a variety of Arabic spoken by Bedouins of the Sinai Peninsula, the Negev, southern Jordan, and the northwestern corner of Saudi Arabia.[3] In the eastern desert of Egypt, the dialect of the Maʿāzah borders the dialect of the ʿAbābdah, who speak a dialect more closely related to Sudanese Arabic.[4]
Characteristics
The Northwest Arabian Arabic dialects share a number of features distinguishing them from the North Arabian Bedouin dialects:[3]
- Absence of tanwīn and its residues.
- Absence of affricated variants of /g/ (< */q/) and /k/.
- Absence of final /n/ in the imperfect, 2nd person feminine singular, 2nd person masculine plural, and 3rd person masculine plural.
- The pronominal suffix of the 2nd person masculine plural is -ku (-kuw).
- The use of the locative preposition fi (fiy).
Levantine Bedawi
Levantine Bedawi is spoken in the eastern area of Jordan,[5] in the southwestern corner of Syria and in the Bedouin regions of Egypt (on the northern and southern coast of the Sinai).[6]
See also
References
- ↑ "Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Spoken". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 1 2 Palva, Heikki. ""Northwest Arabian Arabic." Encyclopedia of Arabic language and linguistics. Vol. III. Leiden – Boston: Brill 2008, pp. 400-408". horizontal tab character in
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at position 106 (help) - ↑ Jong, Rudolf Erik De (2011-04-11). A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of Central and Southern Sinai. BRILL. ISBN 9004201017.
- ↑ "Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Spoken". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-16.
- ↑ "Egypt and Libya". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-16.
Sources
- Gordon, Raymond G.. Jr., ed. (2005), "Bedawi Arabic", Ethnologue: Languages of the World (15th ed.), Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics
- Haim Blanc. 1970. "The Arabic Dialect of the Negev Bedouins," Proceedings of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 4/7:112-150.
- Rudolf E. de Jong. 2000. A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral: Bridging the Linguistic Gap between the Eastern and Western Arab World. Leiden: Brill.
- Judith Rosenhouse. 1984. The Bedouin Arabic Dialects: General Problems and Close Analysis of North Israel Bedouin Dialects. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
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