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CHRISTIAN ARABIC OF BAGHDAD SEMITICA VIVA BD7...

Christian Baghdadi is spoken exclusively by the autochthonous Christian population in the Iraqi
capital. It is one of the three communal dialects of that city (Jewish  Christian and Muslim
Baghdadi)  as described in Haim Blanc's study Communal Dialects in Baghdad (1964). Christian
Baghdadi  like Jewish Baghdadi  belongs to the so-called q ltu dialect group which constitutes
the oldest dialect layer of present-day Mesopotamian Arabic. The present book is the first
monographic treatment of this archaic and gradually expiring dialect. It is based on recent
tape recordings from a total of 20 speakers. The book comprises a grammar (phonology 
morphology and syntax)  a chapter on sociolinguistics  a selection of twenty texts and a short
glossary. The texts are transcribed from recordings of spontaneous speech and treat various
aspects of urban life in Baghdad  from the fifties up to the present.

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