Khuzestani Arabic
| Khuzestani Arabic | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Iran |
| Arabic alphabet | |
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| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
Khuzestani Arabic is a dialect of Gelet (Southern) Mesopotamian Arabic spoken by the Iranian Arabs in Khuzestan Province of Iran. It has had a long history of contact with Persian, leading to several changes.[1] The main changes are in word order, noun–noun and noun–adjective attribution constructions, definiteness marking, complement clauses, and discourse markers and connectors.[1]
Khuzestani Arabic is only used in informal situations. It is not taught in school, not even as an optional course, although Modern Standard Arabic is taught.[1]
Phonology
Vowels
Consonants
Even in the most formal of conventions, pronunciation depends upon a speaker's background.[2] Nevertheless, the number and phonetic character of most of the 28 consonants has a broad degree of regularity among Arabic-speaking regions. Note that Arabic is particularly rich in uvular, pharyngeal, and pharyngealized ("emphatic") sounds. The emphatic coronals (/sˤ/, /dˤ/, /tˤ/, and /ðˤ/) cause assimilation of emphasis to adjacent non-emphatic coronal consonants.[citation needed] The phonemes /p/ ⟨پ⟩ and /v/ ⟨ڤ⟩ (not used by all speakers) are not considered to be part of the phonemic inventory, as they exist only in foreign words and they can be pronounced as /b/ ⟨ب⟩ and /f/ ⟨ف⟩ respectively depending on the speaker.[3][4]
| Labial | Dental | Denti-alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | emphatic1 | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||
| Stop | voiceless | (p) | t | tˤ | k | ʔ | ||||
| voiced | b | d | dˤ | g | ||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | θ | s | sˤ | ʃ | x ~ χ | ħ | h | |
| voiced | (v) | ð | z | ðˤ | ɣ ~ ʁ | ʕ | ||||
| Affricate | voiceless | f | θ | s | sˤ | tʃ | x ~ χ | ħ | h | |
| voiced | d͡ʒ | |||||||||
| Tap | ɾ | |||||||||
| Approximant | l | (ɫ) | j | w | ||||||
Phonetic notes:
- /p/ and /v/ occur mostly in borrowings from Persian, and may be assimilated to /b/ or /f/ in some speakers.
- /ɡ/ is pronunciation of /q/ in Khuzestani Arabic and the rest of southern Mesopotamian dialects.
- The gemination of the flap /ɾ/ results in a trill /r/.
References
- ^ a b c Khuzestani Arabic: a case of convergence
- ^ Holes (2004:58)
- ^ Teach Yourself Arabic, by Jack Smart (Author), Frances Altorfer (Author)
- ^ Hans Wehr, Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic (transl. of Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart, 1952)
Further reading
- Shabibi, Maryam (supervisor: Matras). Contact-induced grammatical changes in Khuzestani arabic. University of Manchester, 2006. (Thesis) - Available from EThOS: Persistent ID: uk.bl.ethos.529368.
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