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Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
> 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.
so says Versteegh p. 160, 134
on p. 134 there is discussion of classification.
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> > African: Sudan, Chad, creoles & pidgins
> >
> > Syro-Mespotamian forms a bridge between levantine and Iraqi, Egyptian
> > and Levantine are quite close.
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