A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral: Bridging the Linguistic Gap Between the Eastern and Western Arab World

by Rudolf Erik De Jong

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004118683
• ISBN13: 9789004118683
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 712 Pages