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Arabic Loanwords in Selṭi

open access: yesAethiopica, 2013
Sǝlṭi belongs to the East Gurage group, along with Wolane and Zway. The East Gurage group is closely related to Harari. The article has the following subsections: 1. Correspondence between the Arabic and the Sǝlṭi consonants. 2.
Wolf Leslau
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Agreement in Arabic Grammar, Study of Loanwords

open access: yesAltralang Journal, 2021
One of the specificities of Arabic is the agreement in grammar, which includes several language units. The parts that correspond to other language units are gender, numbers, and cases. Conformity is also found in the definiteness, personal pronoun, from
Arief Ma'nawi, Syamsul Hadi, Suhandano
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Testing three theoretical frameworks to account for the stressing of Arabic loanwords in British and American English

open access: yesLexis. Journal in English Lexicology
This study shows that the stress characteristics of Arabic loanwords are identical in pronunciation dictionaries in British English and American English with a majority of words with penultimate stress, yet a significant number of words with final stress,
Pierre Fournier
exaly   +3 more sources

Vowel adaptation patterns within English loanwords in Iraqi Arabic

open access: yesCrossroads A Journal of English Studies, 2023
This research examines the phonological adaptation of pure vowels in English loanwords in Iraqi Arabic (IA). Unlike previous small-scale studies, the present study collected 346 loanwords through document review and self-observation, and then analyzed ...
Ahmed Hamid Abdulrazzaq   +1 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Optimality and correspondence theories in phonological shifts: a case study on Arabic guttural consonants in English loanwords

open access: yesFrontiers in Language Sciences
The standardization of loanwords presents challenges for borrowers due to phonological adaptations, particularly with guttural speech sounds. This case study examined native English speakers' articulation of Arabic loanwords containing guttural ...
Siham Alhaider
exaly   +3 more sources

An OT Approach to Loanword Adaptation in Cairene Arabic

open access: yesKansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2004
Cairene Arabic (CA) elects epenthesis as a strategy for adapting loanwords. This paper tackles the reasons why this occurs as well as the different aspects of vowel epenthesis within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT)(McCarthy and Prince, 1993 ...
Galal, Mohamed
exaly   +3 more sources

A Phonological Analysis of English Loanwords Inflected With Arabic Morphemes in Urban Jordanian Spoken Arabic

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2019
This article tackles a phenomenon in Urban Jordanian Arabic (UJA) where young individuals (mainly females) in Amman, the capital of Jordan, add the Arabic suffix - ɪk , which is glossed as second female singular or as a possessive pronoun, to English ...
Aseel Zibin
exaly   +2 more sources

A Phonetic, Morphological and Semantic Analysis of Arabic Words in Malay

open access: yesJournal of Modern Languages, 2017
This study considers ‘loanwords’, as  a universal phenomenon, as there is no language which does not borrow lexical items from other languages either to adopt new concepts or to enrich, increase and develop its vocabulary. Arabic loanwords in Malay have
Arif Karkhi Abukhudairi
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The Use of Arabic Loanwords in Teaching Writing Skills for Hausa Learners of Arabic

open access: yesScientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences, 2021
The educational curriculum requires improvement. As such, it is essential for educational designers to enhance it to address the challenges faced by the second language learners, in the hope of creating more effective teaching and learning environment ...
Nasiru Mainasara   +3 more
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