Khuzestani Arabic
| Khuzestani Arabic | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Iran |
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Afro-Asiatic
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| Arabic alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
Khuzestani Arabic is a dialect of Gelet (Southern) Mesopotamian Arabic spoken in the Iranian province of Khuzestan. 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]
References
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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