linguistics assignment 33

8/9/2019 Linguistics Assignment 33

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Linguistics assignment

A List of some words of the Yemeni dialect

With

their counterparts in standard Arabic and English

Supervised by

Ministery of Higher Educatio

Sana’a Univeristy

Education College

M A Program

Englihs Department

Prepared By:

Yasser Mohammed Al-Refaee

Prof: Ahmed Al-Quyadi

Associated Professor of Applied

Linguistics



I tried to write some of the words which I only know their

counterparts in standard Arabic and English, There are many

words used in Yemeni dialect, but due to time limitation and

the difficulty to find their equivalent in the standard Arabic and

English I removed all of them from the list. The words

mentioned are not only used in my village, rather many of them

are spoken in Taiz ,Thamar, Rada’a ,Aldale, Sana’a and Albedai

.I have kept them while studying and living with people from

the above mentioned areas. Such work is worth doing and

documenting such words is of a great importance as they are

widely used and known across the country. This also doesn’t

mean that their equivalent in standard Arabic are unknown

.Rather, the Arabic language is known to all people but it seems

ridiculous to speak using them social session and among family

members. Even educated people, politician ,writers tend to use

them especially when staying in the public session .I was

thinking of classifying the Yemeni dialect to their classes and

sub classify them also according to their types ,for example.

nouns ,verbs etc and dividing nouns to animals ,places, clothes

etc .For verbs which I have mentioned I have given only the

base form of a verb and not its dialectal derivation, e.g. هذ



and not هfor future or ا , آ .some of dialect verbs

are derived from the Arabic standard verbs ,this phenomena is

mostly used with verbs, for example ,ح is spoken as اح

and so on .Sometimes ,a speaker use one word which is a

combination of two in the standard Arabic .e.g. یا (what is

going on with you).I really find this area of study amazing and

important at the same time and I really appreciate Dr. Ahmed

for giving us such enjoyable assignment .

I am looking forward to seeing the book which you have told us

about, a collection of our work .I am waiting for your sign and

order to work together editing and publishing the book in

coming days .



Standard English Standard Arabic Yemeni dialect

Shoe اء ر,ل,ش, رداع,ا,,اب

Window ن ,نور,

Pan انء ,,

Sheep ن آ

Goat

Cat ه را, د,, ن ج, ا,,اب

Ox

Fox ذ , ,اب

Chickens دجج

Check ,ب

با ز

Breast ي ,ع

Shoulder آ

س

Mountain ج ,ن

Farm جب, ل

Stick د د

Sugar ی)عادر( )رداع(

Rope ,, ح اب,ا,رداع(

Wheat رذ ,م

Nails’ cutter ,ص

Go هذ و,ح,

Mourn اء ب

Love ی ی,

Breakfast ح بداء

Sleep یم ی

See ی ی,ی,ی,ی,یج,یف

robber ر رق

lizard ء ند



sit ی رزی

Roof ,ج

Cup آب ,

Road ی , وب



I will be in process of enlarging this with the help of some

students of the college in Rada’a.

Tired ن ,ق

Absent-minded ضن

Bankrupt اف,ن

Ant ن ,

Mouse ر ,جدي,ي و با,عادر,

Sit جا با,, ء,اب Speak ی یر

Women نء نان

Idiot ها ا

Smart آذ ب,ر,ح

Break ی ی

Tomato روب

Stupid ب

Hat , آ

Snake ن

Wild animal ه

Pregnant یز groom ی ی

bride وس ی

Beautiful ج

Ugly

Adept ه ب

Pencil

Pen sharper

Belt ام ء

Mosque ج

Neck ر

Girl ب ب Grandfather جي ي

Chocolates ی ج ء

shall ل

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