Arabic-L:LING: Osama's dialect & SA dialect response

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Date:  04 Jan 2002
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Osama's dialect & SA dialect response

Greetings,

Based on what is audible, Mr. bin Laden and his Saudi Arabian guest
are conversing in a local "Jeddawi/Mekkawi" colloquial of the Hijazi
dialect. Some Saudi Arabian friends here (graduate students from
Jeddah & Mekkah) placed and followed the dialect, although a few
added that traces of Hadramauti (Yemeni coastal region) show in
several pronunciations and inflections.


There is no _one best_ or comprehensive text on the several Saudi
dialects, as the dialects in the country are regionally distinctive.

Some references in English on regional Saudi dialects are the works by:

o   Bruce Ingham - Najdi/Central Arabia => Nefud (recent publication)

o   the late Theodor Prochazka -  all SA dialects

o   Margaret K. (Omar) Nydell - urban Hijazi (includes audiotapes)

o   the late Thomas Johnstone - one of the pioneering works on
Eastern Arabic dialects

o   Mahmoud Esmael Sieny - urban Hijazi

o   Peter Abboud - Najdi (Ph.D. dissertation at UT Austin and later
published, IIRC)

While there are several other references around (some new items
published in the Arabic seem especially detailed and descriptive
about the Hijazi dialects spoken around al-Ta'if and Mekkah), these
authors cited above produced the 'bedrock' works.

o  Most of their titles (via author search) should be available via
web searches.

o  Some out-of-print items are perhaps obtainable via interlibrary
loan, in sha' Allah.

HTH. Khair, in sha' Allah.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke
(Arabian Peninsula and
  Gulf Arabic dialectologist)

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