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1)<br>Date: 14 Dec 2012<br>From:<span name="Brustad, Kristen" style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Brustad, Kristen</span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:nowrap"> </span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:nowrap"><a href="mailto:brustad@austin.utexas.edu" target="_blank">brustad@austin.utexas.edu</a></span><br>
Subject:North American Schools with Arabic Dialectology Programs<br><br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">I think we can be considered as having an Arabic dialectology program here at UT Austin. We have a working group of 8 people with a range of dialect backgrounds and interests who work individually and collaboratively.</span><br>
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<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Thanks, and best,<u></u><u></u></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Kristen<u></u><u></u></p><div>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div>2)<br>Date: 14 Dec 2012<br>From:<span name="Stephen Franke" style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Stephen Franke</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;white-space:nowrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;white-space:nowrap"><<a href="mailto:shfranke@hotmail.com" target="_blank">shfranke@hotmail.com</a>></span><br>
Subject:North American Schools with Arabic Dialectology Programs<br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">This is one especially-interesting query to me, since I am an Arabic language teacher and dialectologist (largely circumstantial and specializing in the Saudi, Gulf and Yemeni Arabic dialects).</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Herewith some impressions (and I realize I may well be misinformed or under-informed, so I look forward to the final listing you compile from the replies by other list-members):</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Overview - I know of no deliberate, full-blown **dialect-only** or **dialect-prevalent** Arabic programs at either the undergraduate or graduate levels at institutions in the US or Canada. </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Much the same situation seems prevalent at institutions in UK, although I have heard of occasional offerings by SOAS in low-density dialects of Arabic (and preliterate non-Arabic languages of South Arabia) to prepare doctoral students outbound to various host countries to do their field research and thus they need better-than-superficial skills in conversability, linguistics, or ethnography.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">The Arabic language programs with which I am familiar are based on each building and maintaining a strong foundation in MSA. Dialects seem introduced, if at all, considerably later in a program and as almost-random offerings or occasional electives. The "big three" (especially in US Government linguist circles) Arabic dialects have been Egyptian (Cairene), Syrian (Shaamii) and Iraqi (Baghdadi).</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Institutions in the US which offer some courses in selected Arabic dialects include:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">[1] Georgetown - Egyptian, Syrian, Iraq, Maghrebi </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">(FWIW, the library there inherited -- from CAL when it closed its library before its move from VA into DC -- some excellent, if not unique by now, descriptive pubs for self-training on Libyan coastal and rural dialects. Done under contract by some US universities which hosted groups of Libyan students and engaged them as respondents, their design and contents were very functional and intended for [ahem] field use by international aid workers and technicians, such as USAID employees and the like. Those were/are "oldies but goldies" in my opinion, since there is so little material around in English, Arabic, French, Russian, Italian or other languages about Libyan Arabic.) </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">[2] U Michigan - Iraqi (at least)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Ernest McCarus would probably be the most-knowledgeable person there for details on the status of those offerings.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">[3] U of Arizona - Gulf [Emirati] Arabic, taught mostly by Hamdy Qafisheh (if he is still teaching there). </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">I think he tried to set up some similar introductory courses there in Yemeni (Sana'ni) Arabic, but that did not materialize due to low, or no, interest and enrollment sufficient to make a class.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">[4] The U of Texas at Austin - various dialects; ask Kristan Brustad.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">[5] Florida State U - Iraqi (might be U of Southern Florida instead)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">[6] A small university in Montana with a faculty member originally from Yemen (I can track down the details).</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">He teaches basic undergrad classes in MSA and graduate linguistics seminars on Arabic dialectology, contrastive linguistics & diglossia. He can develop and deliver detailed descriptive courses about the major local dialects in Yemen on request (he mentioned that no request from anywhere has appeared to date).</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
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<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">FYI, the DLIFLC at Presidio of Monterey has been expanding its offerings of Arabic dialects [albeit only for familiarization or transition, apparently] in Yemeni (Sana'ani, not on Adeni or Hadarami), Maghrebi, and Sudanese (I surmise Khartoumi).</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">[I was contacted earlier this year about becoming an over-the-phone tester for Yemeni and Sudanese. I asked what materials are being used or were under development; the reply about the work underway there sounded chaotic and in "patchwork" mode due to tight time limits. I surmise those dialect packages [for lack of a more-elegant descriptor] are either: </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">-- [1] (this is only a "maybe" speculation) 14-week add-on portions integrated during the last phases of the current 67-week resident basic Arabic language [MSA-based] course there, or </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">-- [2] they are "stand alone" __i.e. "Headstart"-type__ familiarization-focused, multimedia modules, exportable to US military units located elsewhere.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
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<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Hope this helps. Khair, in shaa' Allah.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Regards,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Stephen</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">San Pedro, California</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
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