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1)<br>Date: 05 Jan 2013<br>From:<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Saqer Almarri <<a href="mailto:saqer.almarri@gmail.com" target="_blank">saqer.almarri@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Subject:Gulf Arabic resources response<br>
<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">There's two Arabic-Arabic dictionaries I'm aware of that focus on Gulf</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Arabics of the UAE:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">1) Faleh Handhal's معجم الألفاظ العامية في دولة الإمارات published by the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">UAE Ministry of Media and Culture (the copy I have was printed in 1998).</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">This dictionary is apparently hard to find.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">2) There's also the dictionary produced by الحموز، القيسي، والجابري and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">edited by Muhammad Almurr, called معجم آلفاظ لهجة الإمارات وتأصيلها,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">published by Zayed Center for Heritage and History in 2008. ISBN: 9948060873</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Regards,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Saqer Almarri</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
2)</div><div>Date: 05 Jan 2013<br>From:<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Stephen Franke <<a href="mailto:shfranke@hotmail.com" target="_blank">shfranke@hotmail.com</a>></span><br>
Subject:Gulf Arabic resources response<div>
<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Greetings.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">If you are looking descriptive (or contrastive) materials about features of those listed Arabic dialects, you might get the works, in the English, by these linguists:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Bruce Ingham (UK)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Clive Holes (UK)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Margaret K. (Omar) Nydell (Affiliated with Georgetown)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Kristan Brustad (now at The U. of Texas at Austin)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">T.M Johnstone (deceased)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Theodore Prochazka (deceased)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">I am unaware of any dialect-specific dictionaries, as such, i.e. MSA - local dialect variant [ <-> English] other than that cited work by Hamdi Qafisheh at UAZ.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Some related Arabic-language works -- published in KSA, Qatar, UAE and Oman -- exist on various Gulf Arabic dialects, if interested. Most are available at a few of the better-stocked Arabic bookstore in the US and UK, or direct from the national universities or institutes/foundations which sponsored that sort of research and publications about "cultural heritage and linguistic foundations of national/regional dialects."</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Any interest in similar works -- in the English or the Arabic -- about dialects of Arabic prevalent in regions of Yemen or the non-Arabic "Modern Southern Arabian" languages?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Hope this helps.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Regards,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Stephen H. Franke</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
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Subject:Gulf Arabic resources responses<br><br><span style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Rahel -- I'm with International Book Centre in Michigan -- I distribute Librarie du Liban publications -- I looked in my inventory and found a title that may interest you -- Dr. Hamdi Qafisheh, A Glossary of Gulf Arabic Gulf Arabic-English, English-Gulf Arabic.</span><br style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">I don't know if members on this list has used this book and can give you an opinion..</span><br style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Best regards,</span><br style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Doris</span><br style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">International Book Centre</span><br style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<a href="http://www.ibcbooks.com/" style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">www.ibcbooks.com</a><br style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br>______<div>
<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Rahel -- I have inventory of a title from Librarie du Liban called The Syntax of Urban Hijazi Arabic (Sa'udi Arabia) by Mahmoud EsMai'il Seny, M.S, Ph.D.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Again, I hope your members can give you some ideas about this title.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Doris</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">International Book Centre</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br>
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