The Phonological and Morphological Variations of the Egyptian Dialect in the Song El-Melouk

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the phonological and morphological variations in the song El-Melouk by Ahmed Saad in collaboration with 3enba and Double Zukh. This type of research is qualitative research. Data collection techniques used in this study consisted of reading, listening, and note-taking techniques. While data analysis technique used is data analysis by Miles and Huberman. The results of phonological variations consist of three important points. First, it was found that there were 55 data on sound changes, which included changing vowels to vowels and changing consonants to consonants. Second, there are 10 data on the addition of sounds which include prothesis, epenthesis, and paragoge. Third, there were 25 sound release data which included release at the beginning of the word (apheresis), middle word (syncope), a release combination of beginning word (apheresis) and the end of word (apocope), and a release combination of middle word (apheresis) and the end (apocope). Then, the morphological variations found in the El-Melouk song include 5 data on changes in fi'il tsulatsi mazid, 8 data on changes in fi'il bina' ajwaf, 2 data on changes in fi'il bina' naqish, 6 data containing naht, and 5 data containing the addition of ba'.