Videos, audio files, texts and scripts used to produce and analyse a small corpus of spoken Arabic in the dialect of Oman
All occurences of sound form I verbs and doubly weak ones where the second radical is weak and the third used to be a hamza in CA. All empty fields were filled with informants’ samples of speech. The table includes female plurals evoked from both informants, and which are common in OA as documented in previous literature, but were not found in any of the examined texts.
I (healthy) | I (R2=ī, R3=ʾ) | |||||||||
Al-ʾAmru | Al-Muḍāriʿu | Al-Māḍī | Al-Muḍāriʿu | Al-Māḍī | ||||||
Singular | 3rd m. | yiglis yafraḥ yastir yənigrak yəsalmek yaʿrif yaḥduṯ | galas ʾamarnā ʾayab | yəgi | gā gāy šāʾ | huwa | ||||
3rd. f. | tiglis tigraḥ tagmīʿ tuzhaq (p) taḥduṯ btazʿal | gilsit galasət | tigī | gāt | hiya | |||||
2nd m. | ʾuskut ʾasmiʿnī | tiglis tāʿrif taḥlib tigdar | galast ẓalametnī | tigī | gīt | anta | ||||
2nd f. | tigilsī | galastī fahimtī | tgīyī | gitī | anti | |||||
1st | ʾaglis ʾusāʿid ʾaʿrafhā ʾaḍraṭ ʾaʿrif ʾamzaḥ ʾaʿyab | galast fahamət ʿaraft | ʾagī | gīt | ana | |||||
Plural | 3rd m./f. | ygilsū ygilsən | galasū galsən | yigīyū yigīyan | gayyū geyyū geyan gāyāt | hum/nn | ||||
2nd. m./f. | ḥilbūh | tigilsū tigilsən | galastū | tgīyū tgīyīn | gītū gītan | antum/nn | ||||
1st pl. | naglis niglis nasbaḥ naḥmud | galasnā ḥaṣalnākum | nig | gīnā gānā | naḥnu | |||||