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Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
> my proposal:
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> Yemen & Oman: Yemen, Oman
both have a S. Arabian substratum. there are 2 varieties in Oman and 2
in Yemen, the "neo-Himyari" "kunku (for kuntu)" variety,
> Arabian: Syro-Mesopotamian (N. Iraq), Iraq, Gulf,
N. Iraqi and Iraqi are marked off by turkish, kurdish and persian
vocabulary.
Anatolian arabic and Central Asian arabic are minor offshooots.
> Peninsula
that is Saudi Arabia.
> Levantine: Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan
> Egyptian: Egypt
> N. African: Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Hassaniya
N. Egyptian forms a bridge between Egyptian and N. African.
> African: Sudan, Chad, creoles & pidgins
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> Syro-Mespotamian forms a bridge between levantine and Iraqi, Egyptian
> and Levantine are quite close.
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