What is bedouin-type Arabic? The linguistic and socio-historical realities behind the millennia-old dichotomous concept of nomadic and sedentary people in the Middle East and North Africa

Project Information

WIBARAB

Grant agreement ID: 101020127

DOI

10.3030/101020127

EC signature date 14 July 2021

Start date 1 October 2021

End date 30 September 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 455 891,00

EU contribution

€ 2 455 891,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT WIEN
Austria

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (9)

The WIBARAB Database: Data model and analytic functions

Author(s): Veronika ENGLER, Daniel SCHOPPER
Published in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Issue 115, 2025, Page(s) 77-102, ISSN 0084-0076
Publisher: Institut für Orientalistik
DOI: 10.25365/phaidra.684_04

Intra-speaker variation and identity performance through stylistic bricolage: Two texts in the Arabic of Arab Khalde (Lebanon)

Author(s): Ana IRIARTE DÍEZ
Published in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Issue 115, 2025, Page(s) 383-404, ISSN 0084-0076
Publisher: Institut für Orientalistik
DOI: 10.25365/phaidra.684_14

“Bordering” the Shammar Jarbā: The Case of the Shaykh Dahhām al-Hādī in the Post-Ottoman Jazira

Author(s): Laura Stocker
Published in: Die Welt des Islams, 2025, Page(s) 1-32, ISSN 0043-2539
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/15700607-20250002

‘Nomadic’, ‘Sedentary’, and ‘Sedentarised’ as comparative ecolinguistic concepts: Evidence from Arabic historical dialectology and contact linguistics

Author(s): Stefano MANFREDI & Stephan PROCHÁZKA
Published in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Issue 115, 2025, Page(s) 205-263, ISSN 0084-0076
Publisher: Institut für Orientalistik
DOI: 10.25365/phaidra.684_09

On a peculiar phonological phenomenon in the Arabic dialect of Beni Mesnawi in the Šawiya region of Central Morocco: Fortition of glides

Author(s): Terlan DJAVADOVA
Published in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Issue 115, 2025, Page(s) 336-348, ISSN 0084-0076
Publisher: Institut für Orientalistik
DOI: 10.25365/phaidra.684_12

Historical observations and a grammatical sketch of the dialect(s) of the Rašāyda in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait

Author(s): Maria Rebecca ZARB
Published in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Issue 115, 2025, Page(s) 487-521, ISSN 0084-0076
Publisher: Institut für Orientalistik
DOI: 10.25365/phaidra.684_18

The phonology of the Arabic dialect of the Rašāyda in Sudan

Author(s): Stanley KOCHEM
Published in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Issue 115, 2025, Page(s) 405-436, ISSN 0084-0076
Publisher: Institut für Orientalistik
DOI: 10.25365/phaidra.684_15

Language ideologies and Bedouinity: Bedouin Arabic as an identity marker among the Bdul community in Southern Jordan

Author(s): Claudia LAABER
Published in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Issue 115, 2025, Page(s) 185-203, ISSN 0084-0076
Publisher: Institut für Orientalistik
DOI: 10.25365/phaidra.684_08

Language and culture of the Bani ʕAbbād (Jordan): Grammatical peculiarities, Bedouin traditions, and popular stories

Author(s): Antonella TORZULLO
Published in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Issue 115, 2025, Page(s) 457-486, ISSN 0084-0076
Publisher: Institut für Orientalistik
DOI: 10.25365/phaidra.684_17

Conference proceedings (2)

The Arabic Dialect of a Jordanian Camel-Breeder Tribe: a Comparative Analysis of Selected Phonological and Morphological Features of the Bani Ṣaxar Variety

Author(s): Antonella TORZULLO
Published in: AIDA Granada A pomegranate of Arabic varieties, 2024, Page(s) 409-420
Publisher: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza

How solid is the linguistic basis for the Bedouin sedentary split used in the classification of Arabic dialects?

Author(s): Stephan PROCHAZKA
Published in: AIDA Granada: A pomegranate of Arabic varieties, 2024, Page(s) 359-370
Publisher: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza
DOI: 10.26754/uz.978-84-1340-834-7

Other (1)

What is Bedouin-type Arabic? - Fresh Perspectives and New Data

Author(s): Ana IRIARTE DÍEZ, Stephan PROCHÁZKA (eds.)
Published in: "Special issue of the journal ""Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes""", Issue 115, 2025, Page(s) 1-521
Publisher: Institut für Orientalistik
DOI: 10.25365/phaidra.684