Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Dialects Query

[Dilworth B. Parkinson]

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Date: 07 Jun 2000
From:  reposted from Corpora by Tim Buckwalter <tbuckwalter at tegic.com>
Subject: Arabic Dialects Query

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From: Rainer Siemund [mailto:rainer.siemund at web.de]
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 1:34 AM
To: linguist at linguistlist.org
Cc: corpora at hd.uib.no
Subject: Corpora: <no subject>


Hi there,

can anyone help me to classify modern Arabic into dialect areas? One of the
categorisations frequently mentioned in literature is that into Mahgreb,
Egypt, Levantine and Gulf Arabic. Native speakers of Arabic, however, tell
me that this classification is too broad and does not work in terms of
mutual intelligibility among speakers of the same dialect region. I
therefore assume that there must be smaller clusters. Any idea?

Regards,
           Rainer

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