Talk:Gulf Arabic

message: Mustafaa changes the official and legal name of the Persian Gulf to a fake and illigal thing "Gulf" (which Gulf???) and thinks it is OK?!!!
What about ommiting all the names and call everything "Sea", "Land", "Lake" instead of using their names?
Come on! What do you people have against things Persian?
What is this??
--Mani1 20:20, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It IS Gulf Arabic, and that’s what we call it in English. As for the gulf itself, it’s the Persian Gulf. Gulf Arabic language, the Persian Gulf, two different things. —Stephen (talk) 18:24, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: Somebody keeps vandalising this article. Its ironic as Gulf Arabic uses Persian words like "hast" and this could be of interest to Persian speakers. أبو خالد إبن المهندس (talk) 12:39, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article needs protection! 

message: Dear humans,
I have made an attempt to improve this article and this is my first major edit - or my first edit ever (while being signed in). I might have made a few mistakes, so please let me know if I did! Thank you, enjoy and have a great night or day! -Konanen (talk) 02:01, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, how about removing the Unreferenced and Stub template, please? -Konanen (talk) 16:12, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Improvement

message: Whoever made the "improvements" that "Khalidji" were pronounced [χɐˈliːdʒi] or that "Lahdja al-Khalijiyya" were pronounced [ˈlɑhdʒɐ lχɐˈliːdʒijːɐ] clearly has no concept of how [ɑ] or [ɐ] sound like. It is ridiculous to assume that a backing of [æ~a] to [ɑ] would be triggered in the environment of palatal [l] and [h], or in turn, that palatal [l] would not be affected by [ɑ] to sound like [ɫ]. Same goes for [ɐ].
I changed these "corrections" back and unless some person can prove to me that [ɐ] belongs to the vowels of GA or [ɑ] is indeed in these words, I will not allow these changes to be made!
Greetings,
Konanen (talk) 16:17, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: IPA pronunciation [ɑ] and [ɐ]

message: Is the qaf letter pronounced q, g or both? The Spartan 003 (talk) 00:22, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Qaf pronounciation 

message: Hi, what does it mean to have an article for  a specific dialect just few countries in Middle East and what does it mean to call it with that title?how about making separate articles  for all dialects of Spanish countries and English countries including Australia and U.S.A?this is not professional thing for aN encyclopedia.Simsala111 (talk) 19:28, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: See American English, Australian English, Mexican Spanish, Costa Rican Spanish, Peninsular Spanish, etc. High surv (talk) 09:18, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Having a main article for few countries 

message: Shakib gaming 103.166.152.135 (talk) 04:54, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shakib gaming 

message: We have two sub-sections titled “Allophony”; this should ideally be fixed, and I will do so eventually, unless somebody else does the honours first.
However, I wanted to ask further about this sub-sub-section in the second allophony sub-section:
:Front vowels
:In the context of emphatic consonants, long /iː/ and /eː/ exhibit centralized vowel onglides and offglides. For example:
:* /tˤiːn/ طين ('mud') → [tˤᵊiːn].
:* /sˤeːf/ صيف ('summer') → [sˤᵊeːf] .
:* /tiħiːdˤ/ ('she menstruates') → [tɪħiːᵊdˤ].
:Similarly, the normal realization of short /i/ is [ɪ] except in final position, where it is [i]; when adjacent to emphatic, uvular, or bilabial consonants, /i/ is centralized to [ɨ].
:* /binti/ ('my daughter') → [bɪnti].
:* /kiˈtaːb/ كتاب ('book') → [kəˈtaːb].
:* /ruːħi/ ('go! [f]') → [rʊːħi].
1) Would vowel on- and off-glides not automatically be part of the co-articulation caused by the pharyngealisation and preceding or subsequent front vowel production? I do not have access to the resource cited for that section, but I question whether a Praat spectrogramme would actually show a vowel on/off-glide in that position. It is good to note this as a phonological process, but I do not think this should be labelled as allophony, unless some speakers demonstrably do NOT exhibit this process of epenthesis.
2) Would some words not be better transcribed differently? I′ll demonstrate:
:/tˤiːn/ طين ('mud') → [tˤ(ᵊ)ɨːn] / [tˤ(ᵊ)eːn] (instead of [tˤᵊiːn])
:/tiħiːdˤ/ تحيض ('she menstruates') → [tɨˈħiː(ᵊ)ðˤ] (instead of [tɪħiːᵊdˤ])
:/ɾuːħi/ روحي ('go! [f]') → [ˈɾˤɔːħi]
Konanen (talk) 17:20, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Allophony