A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral

Bridging the Linguistic Gap Between the Eastern and Western Arab World
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-90-04-11868-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 52, 694 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1367 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East

This study offers a thorough analysis of hitherto unknown Arabic dialects spoken by bedouin tribes inhabiting the northern Sinai littoral. The author identifies five different dialect groups in the area. He combines his own extensive material with that from publications on neighbouring dialects to put this material in a larger dialect-geographical perspective. Proposing a total of 82 criteria and introducing 'partial isoglosses' to typologically measure the dialects, he convincingly shows that three dialect groups form a continuum - a 'linguistic bridge' - connecting the bedouin type of dialects spoken in the Negev and southern Jordan with the sedentary type of dialects spoken in the Nile Delta. An appendix with 77 maps completes the picture. Arabists, dialectologists, semitists and sociolinguists will welcome this study as a valuable contribution to their fields.

Autoren/Hrsg.

de Jong, Rudolf Erik

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Über Autor(innen)

Rudolf E. de Jong, Ph.D. (1999) in Humanities, University of Amsterdam, currently works as an independent researcher of Arabic dialects. He has published two articles on the dialect of the Fayyoum and several on the dialects of Sinai in various journals.