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John Atkinson wrote:
> "Yusuf B Gursey" <ybg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...
> >
> > Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
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> >> my proposal:
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> [...]
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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.
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> Presumably Libya (at least in the north) falls in with N. Egyptian, rather
> than with your other N.African or African?
libyan arabic is fully a n. african dialect. ommision on my part.
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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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> John.
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