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Date: 14 Mar 2012
From:David Wilmsen <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject:dialectology works in Arabic

Another work in Arabic about dialectology is Ayoub.


العربية ولهجاتها -  تأليف د\ عبد الرحمن ايوب  - 1968 مطابع سجل العرب :
القاهرة
 The author presents a good if brief and somewhat simplified overview of
the modern field of dialectology as it applies to Arabic before devoting
chapters to the phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of the Arabic
dialects.

An example of the author's perspective as adhering to the modern study of
dialects rather than that of those adhering to the traditional view
originating with later medieval Arab grammarians comes when, towards the
end of the first chapter (p. 41-41), he says this:

قال البعض بان أصل العربية الفصحى لهجة قريش. واعتمدوا هذا على ما ورد من ان
القرآن قد نزل بلهجة قريش :  وعلى ما افترضوا من أن النبي من قريش ، و لا بد
أن تكون لغة النبي خير اللغات ، و خير اللغات الفصحى ، و بالتالي فلا بد أن
تكون لهجة قريش أصل الفصحى

هذا الفرض غير واقعي يعتمد على اعتبارات غير لغوية  ، إذ أن الحكم بأن لغة خير
من لغة ، ليس أمراً لغوياً بل هو مجرد اعتبار اجتماعي

That was enough to clinch the decision for me to choose it for my students
to read!

DW

David Wilmsen
Associate Professor of Arabic
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages
American University of Beirut
Bliss Street, Hamra
Beirut, Lebanon

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