Arabic-L:LING:Dialect comparison resources

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Date: 13 Jun 2012
From:amagidow at GMAIL.COM
Subject:Dialect comparison resources

For qaaf, you can look at the following references:

Edzard, Lutz "Qāf." /Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics/.
Ed. Kees Versteegh. Vol. 4. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2006.

Fischer, Wolfdietrich and Otto Jastrow (eds.). 1980. /Handbuch der
arabischen Dialekte./ Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz. (around p. 52)

Kaye, Alan and Judith Rosenhouse. 1997. “Arabic dialects and Maltese”.
/The Semitic languages/, ed. Robert Hetzron, 263–311. London: Routledge.
(esp. p.  270 - they have charts, though they could be much more succinct)

There is also:
Behnstedt, Peter. "Dialect Geography." /Encyclopedia of Arabic Language
and Linguistics/. Ed. Kees Versteegh. Vol. 1. Leiden, The Netherlands:
Brill, 2006. 583-593.

Palva, Heikki. "Dialects: Classification." /Encyclopedia of Arabic
Language and Linguistics/. Ed. Kees Versteegh. Vol. 1. Leiden, The
Netherlands: Brill, 2006. 604-613.

Variations in these consonants can often be sociolinguistic (though
probably as a reallocation of geographic variation), so you can look in
the sociolinguistic literature as well for some examples (I recommend
looking at the articles by Enam al-Wer on Amman, and Atiqa Hachimi on
Casablanca).

Work on the historical development of the Arabic sound system is
unfortunately minimal, and serious work with the comparative method is
limited, as far as I know, to a single unpublished dissertation, though
in many cases the relations between the consonants are extremely
straightforward, with few conditioned changes:

Cowan, William G. A Reconstruction of Proto-Colloquial Arabic. Cornell
University, 1960.


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Date: 13 Jun 2012
From:bhuebner2 at GMAIL.COM
Subject:Dialect comparison resources

Hello from Brussels,

For what it's worth.
I have recently finished a project with very basic vocabulary in MSA,
Egyptian, Moroccan, Lebanese, Maltese, Hebrew and French. The
differences aren't as neat as the table would suggest, but it is a
start.

Hope this helps.

Brian Huebner
www.langsites.com

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