نظرية دراسة الأرامي في اللهجات العربية البائدة : دراسة سامية مقارنة

Abstract EN

Ancient Arabic dialectology is an important linguistic discipline falling within the studies concerned with Arabian Semitic languages for two main reasons.

Firstly, only through this interdisciplinary field can we realize the semantic development of words through their variant meanings and references following certain geohistorical developments and changes.

Secondly, we will understand how ancient Arab tribes used words, phrases, and utterances through the linguistic course of Arabic.

This plays a considerable role in the way we understand how modern Standard Arabic, along with its local varieties, has developed.

We attempt in this paper at revealing the Aramaic influence on Arabian obsolete varieties, showing whether such influence has contributed in the loss of linguistic characteristics of the said varieties, how far they comply with the modern varieties of Arabic, and whether there the Aramaic influence is still potential.

The paper aims basically at manifesting the common Semitic characteristics, regardless of the orthography used, where the obsolete Arabian varieties have been written in various orthographies or writing systems, some with a Nabataean whereas others with an ancient south Arabian script.