Gulf Arabic

Clive Holes

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Routledge
04 November 2011

Language self-study texts; Languages & ESL; Chinese - Grammar; Arabic - Languages

Series: Descriptive Grammars

Gulf Arabic is the term used to refer to a number of related dialects which are spoken along the Gulf littoral from northern Kuwait to Oman. The people who live in this area are linked to each other by trading and seafaring traditions which go back many centuries, as well as by the complex tribal structure of Arabia.

With the development of education since the second world war, and increasingly close social, political and developmental ties between Gulf states, a form of dialectal Arabic has evolved which is not closely associated with any one particular state, and which exhibits features common to them all.

This is still unmistakably `Gulf' in its basic pronunciation and morphology, as well as in its basic lexical stock, but its syntax and to some extent lexicon have been influenced by standard Arabic and other Arabic dialects. Clive Holes provides a description of this educated, pan-Gulf dialect.

By: Clive Holes
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9780415513166
ISBN 10: 0415513162
Series: Descriptive Grammars
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 04 November 2011
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Gulf Arabic

`The author has. . .collected a wealth of data over a very wide range of sentence types and usages. . .It is a useful reference book for anyone interested in Arabic syntax and good handbook for anyone wishing to familiarize himself with the Gulf koine dialect, being a great improvement in terms of accuracy, methodology and reliability of data on handbooks previously available'. - Bruce Ingham, BSOAS Liv 2, 1991

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Gulf Arabic

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