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A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral
Bridging the Linguistic Gap between the Eastern and Western Arab World
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This study offers a thorough analysis of hitherto unknown Arabic dialects spoken by bedouin tribes inhabiting the northern Sinai littoral. The author identifies five different dialect groups in the area. He combines his own extensive material with that from publications on neighbouring dialects to put this material in a larger dialect-geographical perspective. Proposing a total of 82 criteria and introducing 'partial isoglosses' to typologically measure the dialects, he convincingly shows that three dialect groups form a continuum - a 'linguistic bridge' - connecting the bedouin type of dialects spoken in the Negev and southern Jordan with the sedentary type of dialects spoken in the Nile Delta. An appendix with 77 maps completes the picture. Arabists, dialectologists, semitists and sociolinguists will welcome this study as a valuable contribution to their fields.
Rudolf E. de Jong, Ph.D. (1999) in Humanities, University of Amsterdam, currently works as an independent researcher of Arabic dialects. He has published two articles on the dialect of the Fayyoum and several on the dialects of Sinai in various journals.
'...de Jong has made a pioneering work and showed once again how interesting and important the study of spoken Arabic isâ¦de Jongâs book should not be missed on the bookshelf of any student of Arabic dialectology and he is only to be congratulated on a splendid job.â
Jan Retsö, Acta Orienatalia , 2001.
âThe result of painstaking research work is praiseworthy indeed: not only is the documentation convincing, but the study also provides effective tools for future investigations.â
Heikka Palva, Studia Orientalia.
Jan Retsö, Acta Orienatalia , 2001.
âThe result of painstaking research work is praiseworthy indeed: not only is the documentation convincing, but the study also provides effective tools for future investigations.â
Heikka Palva, Studia Orientalia.
Anyone interested in Arabic Studies, Dialectology, Semitic Studies and also Sociolinguistics.