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صفحة: IX
development in virtual isolation from those spoken by sedentaries renders Beduin dialects a unique source for the reconstruction of the earliest diachronic ; stages of spoken Arabic ( c ) Authentic Beduin dialects ( that is , spoken without the influence of urb- an and literary forms of Arabic ) are generally incomprehensible to co-territorial sedentaries and can therefore be characterized as an automous linguistic tradition that takes the researcher back to the earliest accessible stage of spoken Arabic . It is probably no exaggeration to claim that Beduin Arabic constitutes , in essence , a fairly autonomous Semitic language within the Arabic linguistic domain ; ( d ) Beduin Arabic is the medium of an impressive oral literature compris- ing a wealth of poetic and legal discourse whose content is of considerable interest to a reconstruction of the culture of ancient Arabia . 5 . Selective glossary of Aramaisms in contemporary Beduin Arabic vernaculars b-l-s Negev beduin balas , yiblis ‘ inform on people’ ~ › Utaybah beduin balas ‘ inform , ’ bal › yis ‘ treachery , information given to the enemy , spying’ ( Kurpershoek 1995 : 328 ) ~ Daw › sir beduin balas ‘ spy on’ ( Kurpershoek 1999 : 335 ) || Jewish Aram bla ڑ ‘ suchen , aufsuchen , durchsuchen ’ ( Levy I , 237– 38 ) , b › l › ڑ › ‘ Untersuchung , ’ b › l › ڑ › , pl b › l › ڑ › n ‘ Untersucher , Spion , Polizeidiener’ ( Dalman 1938 : 56 ); ball › s ‘ liar ; slanderer , detractor’ : m › ni min al-ball › sin ‘ I’m not a telltale’ ~ Daw › sir ball › s , pl bal › l › s ‘ enemy spy’ ( Kurpershoek 1999 : 335 ) ~ Sudan ball › s ‘ spy ; paid informant’ ( Qasim 2002 : 112 ) . délation ’ ( Landberg 1920 : 204 ) . délater , ’ tabl › s ‘ délation Dath › na ballas Negev beduin bil › s ‘ spy ; informer’ : m › niy bil › siy ( poet . ) ‘ I’m not a gossip !’ ~ › Utaybah beduin bil › s ‘ one who spies on people and divulges their secrets’ ( Kurpershoek 1995 : 328 ) ~ Kuwait bilasa ‘ payment to a spy to trace a . stolen camel’ ( Dickson 1949 : 625 ) [“ A Badawin’s passion is his camel , and if he has lost one by raid , or by simple theft , he will not rest till he has discovered where it is and what shaikh , indi-
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