DIALECTS IN TURKEY AND NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES BETWEEN ROOTS AND BRANCHES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY IN THE LIGHT OF THE ARABIC LINGUISTIC HERITAGE AND ISLAMIC STUDIES
This study compares the Arabic dialects of Southeastern Turkey (Anatolian Arabic) with the neighbouring Arabic dialects of Syria and Iraq in terms of their linguistic relationship. These varieties, which have been lying on the periphery of Arabic and have been cut off from the Arabic heartlands since 1923, are identifi...