The dz variant in the speech of Arab tribes in Saudi Arabia

Abstract EN

This paper is a sociolinguistic study of selected people who originally belong to three Bedouin Tribes in Saudi Arabia, namely, the Qahtani, Shamari and Anizi tribes, and who now currently reside in Al Ahasa (Saudi Arabia).

The speech of forty-eight informants from these tribes has been investigated to examine variation in the speech of these groups and to identify possible correlations with selected extra-linguistic factors.

The variant [dz] of the (Q) variable will be used as a basis to investigate this variation because it is a unique characteristic feature of the dialect of these groups and is used, to a great extent, in their phonetic inventory.