اللهجة الفلسطنية وظوارها الصوتية

Abstract

Palestine is a small country located at the east of Mediterranean and it forms a connection between Asian and African continents. It is in a distinguished geographical location making it the target for those nations seeking a prosperous living, apart from its religious esteem for the Jews, Christians and Muslims. The question of this study lies in the big variety of the dialects of palestine. Despite its small geographical span and the presence of the phenomenal phonetic differences in the dialects, has yet to get enough attention of study and research. Recent researches have focused on the Palestinian dialects and emphasising the phonetic aspect only, ignoring the historical aspect which could explain the cause for the variety. Therefore, this study intends to explain the effect of ancient civilisations that once existed on the Palestinian soil for instance Syriac, Persian and Turk civilisations on the dialects in Palestine; bring to light the dialects and study them historically by connecting it with the civilisations; and study the dialects in phonetic angle by connecting it with the dialects of the Arab tribes migrating from the Arab Peninsula before the Islamic opening of Palestine and afterwards. The effects are present in the phonetic phenomenon in Palestinian dialects, for instance al-kashkashah phenomenon and al-ananah phenomenon and other phenomena still existing in the dialects of Palestine. This study is a quantitative study using library research by relying on sources and references related to the Palestinian dialects in Palestine. In addition, most importantly, it is found in this study that the Palestinian dialects have their Syriac, Persian and Turk roots which have left their effects on the dialects as can be seen in thousands of words continuously being used. The dialects of the Arab tribes migrating to Palestine have characterised the Palestinian dialects with phonetic phenomenon where every tribe has its phonetic phenomenon or its more distinctiveness from the remaining Arab tribes. This study postulates an interpretation to thousands of non-Arabic words existing in modern Palestinian dialects which are backdated to ancient civilisations.

DOI: 10.22583/ijwas.2016.08.01.10