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entitled The architecture of the Saudi Arabian South-West’, at the
Seminar for Arabian Studies in July 1976 (to be published in the
Proceedings).
2. On the human geography of the area sec A handbook of Arabia, vol.
I. General. London, HMSO, 1920; Hamad al-Jasir, FT Sar&t Ghamid
wa-Zahran, Riyadh, 1971; ‘All b. $alib al-SuIuk al-ZahrSnl, Al-mu'jam
al-jughrafi lil-Bilad al-'Arabiyyah al-Su'udiyyah. Bilad Ghamid wa-
Zahr&n, Riyadh, 1971; Fu’ad Hamzah, Fi Bilad 'Asir, Riyadh, 1968;
Muhammad b. Ahmad al-‘AqTlI, Al-mu'jam al-jughrifi lil-Bilad al-
'Arabiyyah al-Su'udiyyah. Muqala'at Jazan, al-Mikhlaf al-Sulaimanl,
Riyadh, 1969; HSshim b. Sa‘Id al-Ni‘mI, Tarlkh 'Asir, n.pl., n.d.
3. A number of the terms recorded here have reflexes in Yemen,
Dathlnah and the Hadramawt. A comparison of the terms found in Saudi
Arabia and regions south will be the subject of a subsequent study.
4. This phenomenon is found also along the Arabian Gulf coast and in
some parts of the Hadramawt. See T. M. Johnstone, Eastern Arabian
Dialect Studies, London, 1967, 9-10, 32, 34, 36, 39-40; id., ‘The sound
change j>y in the Arabic dialects of Peninsular Arabia’, BSOAS, XXVIII,
1965, 233-41.
5. In Tanumah there is vacillation between j and z, but the reason for it
is not clear. The sound z occurs, however, in Ghamid and ZahrSn.
6. It is possible that in some of the areas they are not real affricates but
sounds which are more or less palatalised. In al-Qirinjah, however, the
writer heard the palatalised consonant g' in the word fang' ‘way’. For
al-‘Ara\ al-Qauz, and Ghaihab, a village near al-Nama$, he heard A'’in the
2 f.s. suffix pronoun: ‘alayk’ Ar, 4alek’ Qauz ‘on you’, bintik’ Ghaihab
‘your daughter’. The use of the affricates c and j instead of k and g
respectively is widespread along the Arabian Gulf coast. See Johnstone,
Eastern Arabian, 2-6, 21, 29-30; id., ‘The affrication of “kaf” and “gaf” in
the Arabic dialects of the Arabian Peninsula’, JSS, VIII, 210-26.
7. On the syllabication of Najdi dialects see id., Eastern Arabian, 7-8;
is., ‘Further studies on the Dosiri dialect of Arabic as spoken in Kuwait’,
BSOAS, XXVII, 1964, 77, 83-4, 87-8; id., ‘Aspects of syllabication in the
spoken Arabic of ‘Anaiza’, BSOAS, XXX, 1967, 1-16.
8. I should like to express thanks to the following people who helped
me in my research: HRH Prince Khalid al-Fai$al Ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azlz and
HRH Prince FawwSz Ibn ‘Abd al-‘Az!z, for having given me permission to
carry on my work in the ‘Asir and Mecca Provinces respectively; Colonel
Mus5‘ad b. Khalid al-Sudairi for his kind hospitality; Messrs Muhammad
Sa*Id al-Dammas, ‘Abdallah ‘Aishan, ‘All Huwais, ‘Abdallah Abu Dahish,
‘Abdallah Abu ‘IshshI, ‘Abd al-Rabman Abu Milbah, Muhammad A1
Zulfah QabtanI, $alib IJa$u$ah, Mu‘zl Hasan Maliki, $alib b. Muhammad
Khushail, and ‘Awad Hamad al-Qauz! for having given me the terms
included here.