Arabic-L:LING:Gulf Pidgin Arabic Response

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Date:  16 Oct 2001
From: kassem wahba <kassem_wahba at yahoo.com>
Subject: Gulf Pidgin Arabic Response

Dear Professor Miller,

Unfortunately, not much is written about pidgin
Arabic spoken either in the Gulf or in Pakistan or
Afghanistan. As for the Gulf Arabic, You can find few
hints in Hamdi Qafisheh works  (1975,1977,1979) on
generally gulf Arabic, but his focus was on United
Arab Emirates Arabic (AbuDhabi educated dialect. Here
is his works
Qafisheh, Hamdi A. 1975. A Basic Course in Gulf
Arabic. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Qafisheh, Hamdi A. 1977. A Short Reference Grammar of
Gulf Arabic. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Qafisheh, Hamdi A. 1979. Gulf Arabic: Intermediate
Level. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

There are few Hints also in Clive holes works in 1984,
and 1990, on Gulf Arabic.
  The problem is most of these people have worked on
the Arabic spoken mainly by Arab speakers, but not on
the Arabic spoken by non-native speakers of other
nationalities such as Indians,Pakistani,
Afghani, Persians and others especially when
they communicate either with the native Arabic
speakers or within themselves.

Regards
Kassem Wahba
Johns Hopkins University
The Arabic program

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