FSI. Saudi Arabic Basic Course. Urban Hijazi Dialect

Foreign Service Institute, 1975. 305 p.
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Languages: english/arabicThere are three major groups of dialects in Saudi Arabia - Hijazi, spoken on the western coast, in jidda, taif, and the holy cities of Mecca and Medina; Najdi, spoken in and around Riyadh, in the north central part of the country; and Shargi, spoken in the oil-rich eastern region. This book reflects the dialect as spoken in Jidda. Whenever forced to choose between language usage in the other Hijazi cities and that of Jidda, the jidda usage was given preference. This dialect has also been designed "urban" hijazi to distinguish it from Bedouin dialects also native to the Hijaz region.