ARABIC-L: LING: Arabic - Colloquial Resources

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Date: 01 Feb 1999
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Arabic - Colloquial Resources

Greetings.

Re the query by one of ouir list-colleagues on (descriptive / contrastive)
materials about Arabic regional dialects

Sudanese (Khartoumi) Arabic:

o  Sudan Notes and Records (SNR)

Back issues (circa 1960-1980s) of SNR (published by the University of
Khartoum) carried descriptive articles about Sudanese dialects of Arabic,
mostly detailing those used in the capital area consisting of Khartoum, Umm
Durman, Khartoum Al-Bahri, and Jezirat Tuti (small island).

One nice feature of the articles was their rich assortment of colloqualisms
and social utterances and occasional comparisons with FusHa equivalents.

The Center for Afroasiatic Languages at U. of Khartoum published some
monographs and smaller reports about dialect research.

Peninsular and Gulf Arabic:

Several books and numerous articles by dialectologists, notable Johnstone,
Holes, Ingham, Prochaska, Bakhalla, Sieny, Jastrow, and others.

One good source of references on regional dialects is the Library of Arabic
Linguistics series published by Kegan Paul International.

Re Dialect courses (Gulf Arabic):

The UAE University in Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi, has conducted a unique
familiarization course for foreign students on "lower Gulf" dialects (Emirati
and touch of Omani).

That course requires students to arrive with pretty solid backgrounds in FSA /
MSA or another major dialect. The program is a localized and interdisciplinary
version of the summer-time CASA course conducted at AUC. Instructors include
Egyptians (numerous transplanted veterans of AUC or from Mansoura), Syrians
and Emiratis.

HTH.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

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