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50. Arabic Dialects (general article)

“…Studies on dialect enclaves have been conducted on Uzbekistan, principally by the Russians Vinnikov (1962Vinnikov ( , 1969 and Tsereteli (1956), also by Fischer (1961) and Jastrow (1995Jastrow ( , 1998Jastrow ( , 2005, Khurasan (Seeger 2002), Khuzistan (Ingham 1973(Ingham , 1976(Ingham , 1991, and on the dialect of the Maronite community in Cyprus (Borg 1985(Borg , 2004. The Arabic dialects of south-east Turkey were studied by Sasse (1971) and, more recently, Procházka (2002).…”

“…above), as in: ḥa-l-mṛa 'a woman'. In Cypriot Arabic, éxen/éxte functions as the indefinite article (Borg 1985(Borg , 2004, and in many eastern dialects, wāḥid can be used before an indefinite (usually animate) noun in the sense of 'a certain' or 'one', particularly in story narratives; in these latter cases, however, the reflex of wāḥid is more noun-like, less grammaticalised and does not have the same distribution as the indefinite article in the Maghribi dialects. Marçais (1977, 163) attributes the robustness of this syntactic construction in the Maghrib to the presence of a similar syntactic construction Ϫ indefinite article C definite article C noun Ϫ in Berber.…”