The sound change j > y in the Arabic dialects of peninsular Arabia
- 1 February 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
- Vol. 28 (2) , 233-241
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x0007508x
Abstract
An important phonological feature of many of the dialects of Arabia is the pronunciation of . This sound change is not confined to one dialect group, and unlike the affrication of and is non-conditioned. The evidence whether > in Classical Arabic or in the ancient dialects is rather inconclusive, and exceptin a few authors it is not categorically stated to be a sound change in the way that this is stated, for example, of 'aj'aja (iy[y] > ij[j] mainly in pause) for the dialect of the Tamīm.Keywords
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