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Re: Varieties of Arabic

Subject: Re: Varieties of Arabic
From: "Alan"
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:11:21 GMT
Newsgroups: sci.lang
"Yusuf B Gursey" <ybg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:1155685515.999266.136900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
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>> 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,
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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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