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"Yusuf B Gursey" <ybg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
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>> my proposal:
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>> Yemen & Oman: Yemen, Oman
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> both have a S. Arabian substratum. there are 2 varieties in Oman and 2
> in Yemen, the "neo-Himyari" "kunku (for kuntu)" variety,
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>> Arabian: Syro-Mesopotamian (N. Iraq), Iraq, Gulf,
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> N. Iraqi and Iraqi are marked off by turkish, kurdish and persian
> vocabulary.
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> Anatolian arabic and Central Asian arabic are minor offshooots.
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>> Peninsula
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> that is Saudi Arabia.
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>> Levantine: Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan
>> Egyptian: Egypt
>> N. African: Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Hassaniya
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> N. Egyptian forms a bridge between Egyptian and N. African.
And how would Libyan Arabic be classified?
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>> 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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