The lexical borrowing in Palestinian colloquial Arabic

The paper aimed to determine the social factors responsible for the variable use of [g], [k] and the prestigious [ʔ] in the Colloquial Arabic of the Gaza Strip women. These variables are of interest because they each have one variant that coincides with al-Fussha Arabic; which is the standard /q/. T...

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Main Author: Nael F. M. Hijjo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak 2014-12-01
Series:Issues in Language Studies
Online Access:http://publisher.unimas.my/ojs/index.php/ILS/article/view/1661