ghawa syndrome

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English

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Etymology

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Named after the resyllabification of dialectal Arabic قَهْوَة (gahwa, coffee) as قْهَوَة (ghawa), which is the prototypical example of the phenomenon.

Noun

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Examples (dialectal Arabic)

ghawa syndrome (uncountable)

  1. (phonology) A phenomenon in some Arabic dialects in which the second consonant in a word forms a cluster with the first consonant.
    Synonym: Najdi resyllabification[1]
  2. (sociolinguistics) Imitation of such resyllabification due to perceived prestige or correctness.

Usage notes

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  • Dialects exhibiting the phenomenon include some Iraqi dialects,[2] Sana Yemeni,[3] Najdi, Northern Israeli Bedouin Arabic,[4] Burayami of Oman,[5] and Najdi-descendant speakers of Kuwaiti Gulf Arabic.[6]

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References

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  1. ^ Palva, Heikki (2009) “From qəltu to gələt: Diachronic notes on linguistic adaptation in Muslim Baghdad Arabic”, in Arabic Dialectology[1], Brill, archived from the original on 24 November 2020, pages 17–40:[] and the Najdi resyllabification rule, e.g., gahawaghawa, yaxabuṭyxabuṭ, katabatktibat, zalamazlima.
  2. ^ Palva, Heikki (2009) “From qəltu to gələt: Diachronic notes on linguistic adaptation in Muslim Baghdad Arabic”, in Arabic Dialectology[2], Brill, archived from the original on 24 November 2020, pages 17–40:[] This is an obvious major case of phonetic adaptation by immigrant Bedouin speakers, the ex-Bedouin rural population in southern Iraq included.
  3. ^ Rosenhouse, Judith (2013) “General and local issues in forensic linguistics: Arabic as a case study”, in Comparative Legilinguistics, number 15, pages 53–68; 62.
  4. ^ Rosenhouse, Judith (1995) “An Arabic Bedouin story and its linguistic analysis”, in Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik, number 30, pages 62–83; 71.
  5. ^ Grünbichler, Elisabeth (2016) “Linguistic remarks on the dialect of Al-Buraymi, Oman”, in Arabic Varieties: Far and Wide, number 267.
  6. ^ Taqi, Hanan A. (2018) “The Ghawa Syndrome in Kuwaiti-Arabic verbs”, in Journal of Advances in Linguistics, number 9, pages 1298–1312.