![]() ![]() The main compont of a healthy environment for self esteem is that it needs be nurturing. The main component of a healthy environment for self esteem is that it needs be nurturing. The battle is never lost until you’ve abandon your vision. Take all negative words out of your mental dictionary and focus on the solutions with utmost conviction and patience. ![]() ![]() Winners never quit and quitters never win. While previous work has mostly focused on the morpho-syntactic features of Gulf Pidgin Arabic to determine its current developmental stage, the present paper also examines evidence from its phonology and vocabulary.Never ever think of giving up. Gulf Pidgin Arabic has been said to exhibit some features typical of creoles (Almoaily 2013), while others (Næss 2008 Alghamdi 2014 Almoaily 2014 Bizri 2014 Versteegh 2014b) regard it as a pidgin, but fail to agree on whether it is still a jargon or rather an already stable pidgin (in accordance with the developmental stages posited by Mühlhäusler 1997). The developmental stage of Gulf Pidgin Arabic is controversial. Gulf Pidgin Arabic is still relatively poorly documented (for general descriptions see Smart 1990 Wiswall 2002 Avram 2014a, forthcoming), in spite of an upsurge of recent publications on varieties spoken in specific territories (Almoaily 2008 Al-Azraqi 2010 Albakrawi 2012 Almoaily 2013 Alghamdi 2014 Almoaily 2014 Al-Zubeiry – on Saudi Arabia Salem 2013 – on Kuwait Yammahi 2008 – on the United Arab Emirates Næss 2008 – on Oman Bakir 2010 – on Qatar). Furthermore, the immense dialectal variations between the people living in al-Buraymi suggest that there may be no homogeneous Buraymi dialect. The long period of time between the studies and the significant change of the Gulf region and particularly Oman since the 1970’s have contributed to the fact that a Bedouin dialect has become a hybrid dialect between the Omani Bedouin, sedentary and Gulf dialects. The results of my research reveal that the Buraymi dialect has changed notably. In addition to this main division, there are also “mixed” dialects, which are spoken on the Bāṭina coast and in cities of the Šarqīya region. Sedentary dialects are spoken mainly in towns and villages of the mountainous interior, while Bedouin dialects are found in the desert areas. Within the Omani group of dialects, a division between Bedouin and sedentary dialects can be made. The dialects of Oman are distinguished by common characteristics from the other dialects of the Arabian Peninsula. The aim of this article is the presentation of some phonological, morphological and lexical features of the dialect spoken in al-Buraymi, a city in the north of Oman on the border with the United Arab Emirates and its comparison with previous studies examining whether or not there have been significant changes concerning the dialect. ![]()
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