1973/10/01 by Bruce Ingham
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis #Historical and Linguistic Studies #Linguistics and language evolution
paper · doi:10.1017/s0041977x00119846
It has been frequently noted by linguists and other observers that in many parts of the Arabic-speaking world, the speech patterns of any one region divide quite sharply into two groups—that of the towns on the one hand, and that of the surrounding countryside on the other. The following is an attempt to show the relationship of two dialects of Arabic spoken in the province of Khūzistān in Iran which can be considered to be representative of urban and rural groups within their area.