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Shehri, (Arabic: شحرية), also known as Jibbali ("mountain" language in Omani Arabic), is a Modern South Arabian language. It is spoken by a small native population inhabiting the coastal towns and the mountains and wilderness areas upland from Salalah, located in the Dhofar Governorate in southwestern Oman.

Shehri
Jibbali
Pronunciation[dʒibbaːli][1]
Native toOman
Native speakers
59,000 (2001-2011)[2]
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3shv
Glottologsheh1240
ELPJibbali

Overview


Shehri (Jibbali, Geblet, Sheret, Šehri, Šhauri, Shahari, Jibali, Ehkili, Qarawi, and Garawi) is spoken along a dialect continuum that includes Western Jibbali, Central Jibbali, and Eastern Jibbali. The dialect used by the few inhabitants of Al-Hallaniyah in the Khuriya Muriya Islands is sometimes known as 'Baby' Jibbali. Speakers generally live a semi-nomadic culture, rearing cows and camels in the mountains. The dialects themselves contain only minor variances and are highly intelligible.

Like most Modern South Arabian dialect speakers in Oman and Yemen, many Shehri speakers are bilingual in local dialects of Arabic especially the Dhofari dialect.[citation needed] In addition, it is primarily a spoken language, and there is no tradition of writing or publishing in the language.[citation needed] Pressure from Arabic has forced many changes in the language, so much so that young speakers use noticeably different grammar.[citation needed]


Phonology



Consonants


Labial Inter-
dental
Dental/
Alveolar
Postalveolar/
Palatal
Velar Uvular Pharyngeal Glottal
plain lateral plain sibilant
Nasal mn
Plosive voiceless t k (ʔ)
voiced bd (ɟ)ɡ
glottalic ~ ~
Fricative voiceless fθsɬ çʃ χ ħh
voiced ðz(ɮ) (ʝ) ʁ ʕ
glottalic ðˀ~ðʼ ~s’ɬˀ~ɬʼ (çˀ~çʼ)ʃˀ~ʃʼ
Rhotic r
Approximant l j w

Vowels


Front Central Back
Close i u
Close-mid e ə o
Open-mid ɛ ɔ
Open a

Grammar


The vowel system is made up of an 8-member set, containing the normal Semitic i-u-a, along with tense and lax vowels, and a central vowel. The vowel set is: i, e, Ó, Í, a, Ã, o, u.[citation needed] The difference between the long and short vowels is not always just phonological.[citation needed]

Noun markers are a combination of Arabic, Ethiopian, and unique Modern South Arabian grammar markers. Nouns have an either masculine or feminine gender. Feminine markers use the endings of –(V)t or –h, as in Arabic. Unlike Arabic, the dual number marker is not used in nouns, and is instead replaced by a suffix of the numeral 2 itself. Dual pronouns are no longer used by the youth, replaced by plural pronouns.[citation needed]

Simple verb conjugations have two separate classes, with differing conjugations for perfect, imperfect, and subjunctive cases. Verbal clauses always take the order of VSO (Verb–subject–object) or SVO (Subject–verb–object). If the subject is an independent pronoun, it is placed before the verb. Guttural verbs have their own pattern. Verb classifications are intensive-conative, causative, reflexive (with infixed -t-), and causative-reflexive. In future verbs, a preverb ha-/h- precedes the subjunctive.[citation needed]

The numbers 1 and 2 act as adjectives. Between 3 and 10, masculine numbers enumerate feminine nouns, and feminine numbers enumerate masculine nouns. There is gender agreement between the number and nouns from 11 to 19. Beyond that, the structure is tens, “and”, and the unit. This is similar to Arabic counting. Livestock counting presents a special case that deviates from Arabic, instead using an ancient Bedouin system. Beyond 13, the noun used is either plural or singular.[citation needed]


References


  1. Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude (7 February 2010). "Mehri and Hobyot spoken in Oman and in Yemen". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. "Shehri". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  3. Rubin 2014.

Further reading





На других языках


[de] Jibbāli

Jibbāli ist eine neusüdarabische Sprache.
- [en] Shehri language

[fr] Shehri

Le shehri ou jibbali (signifiant « langue des montagnes ») est une langue sémitique parlée au Dhofar (région sud du sultanat d'Oman), plus particulièrement dans les villages côtiers, montagnards ou isolés de la région de Salalah. Il appartient à la famille des langues sudarabiques modernes.

[ru] Шехри

Шехри (также: джиббали) — один из южноаравийских языков. Распространён в некоторых горных районах в оманской провинции Дофар, к северу от города Салала. Число носителей по данным на 1993 год составляет около 25 000 человек. Выделяют западный, восточный и центральный диалекты.



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