A sociolinguistic study of dialect contact in Arabia : Ghamdi immigrants in Mecca

This study investigates the changes that occur in the speech of Ghamdi migrants in the city of Mecca within the framework of dialect contact. Those migrants migrated from AI-Bal), a rural area in the south-western region of Saudi Arabia, to the city of Mecca in the Hijazi region. The data were colle...

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Main Author: Alghamdi, Najla Manie
Published: University of Essex 2014
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.653062