The impact of Persian language on Kerbala Arabic dialect : a sociolinguistic study

الملخص EN

The present study is an attempt to check whether or not thepeople of Kerbala are affected by the Persian language.

After tape– recording, the data has been fed into a computer in the shapeof machine readable forms.

The number of informants subjectedto the experiment is (288= 153 male + 135 female), and the samenumber consists of (157) from the city centre and (131) from therural.

The concordance of the data of each informant has beenconducted by the use of SPSS.

T-test and ANNOVA tests are used.

This research-paper comprises five sections and a conclusion.

Theintroduction is an introductory section, the section two is a reviewof literature on sociolinguistics and some previous studies as wellas the influence of Arabic on other languages.

Section four explainslanguage variation (= social and linguistic variable).

Section threetalks about the methodology of the paper.

Section five discussesthe results of the study, and finally the conclusion of the researchpaperthe researcher arrives at.

As for the results, the researcherconcluded that the educated informants of both sexes show moretendency to acquire the local norms where the uneducated informantsare more affected with Persian language, the females tend toemploy the Persian lexical words in the urban as much as possiblemore than the male ones; the urban tend to be more affected bythe Persian lexical words than the rural, and it has been proved inthis research that these informants who live near shrines are moreaffected than those who are in the rural.