2019/09/23 by Nawal Bahrani, Golnaz Modarresi Ghavami · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Linguistics and Cultural Studies #Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis #Linguistics and language evolution #Arabic #Lexis #Linguistics #Turkish #Persian #History #Variety (cybernetics) #Ancient history #Geography #Philosophy #Computer science #Artificial intelligence
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s0025100319000203
openalex publication_date 2019/09/23 · openalex created_date 2022/05/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Khuzestani Arabic (ISO 639-3) is a minority language spoken in the southern west of Iran, in Khuzestan province (see Figure 1). The majority of its speakers live in Ahwaz, Howeyzeh, Bostan, Susangerd, Shush, Abadan, Khorramshahr, Shadegan, Hamidiyeh (Balawi & Khezri 2014: 107), Karun, and Bawi. According to Blanc (1964: 6), this variety of Arabic is closely related to the Gelet subgroup of Mesopotamian dialects. 1 This dialect is in contact with Bakhtiyari Lori and Persian (Iranian languages of the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European language family), as well as Iraqi Arabic. The lexis of the dialect predominantly contains Arabic words, but it also has several Persian, English, French, and Turkish loanwords.