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Towards a dialect geography of oman

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Clive Holes
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This study presents some new observations on selected features of the phonology and morphology of the Omani Arabic dialects, and attempts to place them in a peninsula-wide typological framework. The paper is based on the results of an analysis of tape-recorded conversational data gathered in more than thirty, mainly rural locations in northern Oman between 1985 and 1987. Most of the speakers were men and women aged 35 and above with little or no formal education who, if not retired, were engaged in traditional occupations such as farming, fishing, pottery and animal husbandry. Much of the data was gathered in the context of a study of the epidemiology of rheumatic diseases conducted on a random sample of 2,000 Omanis adults by my wife for the Omani Ministry of Health, during which the subjects were interviewed by me at length in their homes or places of work.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 52 , Issue 3 , October 1989 , pp. 446 - 462
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1989

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