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Salt, Dialect of
(7,609 words)
1. Introduction The city of Salt is located 25 kilometers northwest of Amman, the capital of Jordan, and has around 71,100 inhabitants. Until recently, it was the biggest town on the eastern bank of the Jordan River; things started to change when Amman became the capital of Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Since Amman had no indigenous population, the dialect spoken in Salt can be rightly considered a typical example of sedentary Jordanian. The dialect described here is endangered and is probably sti…
Date:
2018-04-01
Šāwi Arabic
(6,519 words)
1. Introduction The term
Šāwi may refer to various unrelated groups, such as one of the Berber varieties spoken in Algeria, the sheep-breeder Bedouins of inner Oman, as well as the sheep-breeder Bedouins of the Syro-Mesopotamian area. The root
š-w-y also appears in the ethnonym
Šuwa, which refers to some Arabic-speaking populations around the Lake Chad. The present entry only deals with the sheep-breeder Bedouins of Syro-Mesopotamia. Mostly sedentarized, the
Šiwāya (plural of
Šāwi) tribes are known for their way of living, mainly based on sheep herding, alth…
Date:
2018-04-01
