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Re: Varieties of Arabic

Subject: Re: Varieties of Arabic
From: "Yusuf B Gursey"
Date: 15 Aug 2006 18:58:39 -0700
Newsgroups: sci.lang
John Atkinson wrote:
> "Yusuf B Gursey" <ybg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...
> >
> > Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
> >
> >> my proposal:
> >>
> [...]
> >
> >> Levantine:           Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan
> >> Egyptian:            Egypt
> >> N. African:           Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Hassaniya
> >
> > N. Egyptian forms a bridge between Egyptian and N. African.
>
> 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.

>
> >> African:                Sudan, Chad, creoles & pidgins
> >>
> >> Syro-Mespotamian forms a bridge between levantine and Iraqi, Egyptian
> >> and Levantine are quite close.
> >
> 
> John.


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