Arabic-L:LING:Dialect Identification Query

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Date: 03 Oct 2000
From: jjruiter <jj.deruiter at kub.nl>
Subject: Dialect Identification Query

Hello,

I have recordings of a North African individual and I am wondering if
he stems from Algeria or Tunisia. There are two things in his
language that make me puzzle.

The first is his pronounciation of /s/ in a word like `yfettshu'
where /sh/ is pronounced like /s/. A similar phenomenon was observed
in his pronounciation of /m zdiid/ in stead of the expected /m
zhdiid/.

For referring to `football' he used the expression `bola' (and also
`lfoot').

Are these aspects characteristic for Tunisia or for Algeria or both?

Thanks in advance,


Jan Jaap de Ruiter

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