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Re: Varieties of Arabic

Subject: Re: Varieties of Arabic
From: "Yusuf B Gursey"
Date: 15 Aug 2006 16:45:16 -0700
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Yusuf B Gursey wrote:

> my proposal:
>
> 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
>
> Syro-Mespotamian forms a bridge between levantine and Iraqi, Egyptian
> and Levantine are quite close.


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