Language and Linguistic Origins in Bahrain

First published in 1982. The reasons behind the establishment of this Series on Arabic linguistics are manifold. First: Arabic linguistics is developing into an increasingly interesting and important subject within the broad field of modern linguistic studies. Second: Arabic linguistics is reaching a mature stage in its development benefiting from both the early Arabic linguistic scholarship and modern techniques of general linguistics and related disciplines. Third: The scope of this discipline is wide and varied, covering diverse areas such as Arabic phonetics, phonology and grammar, Arabic psycholinguistics, Arabic dialectology, Arabic lexicography and lexicology, Arabic sociolinguistics, teaching and learning of Arabic as a first, second, or foreign language, communications, semiotics, terminology, translation, machine translation, Arabic computational linguistics, history of Arabic linguistics, etc.

Mahdi Abdalla Al-Tajir

INTRODUCTION, Field Work and the Informants, Tape recordings and Transcriptions, Arrangement of the Material, The Schools and the Emergence of Pan-Arabic 'koine' Forms, The earliest missionary schools, The Hid?ya School, Traditional Bah?rnah schools, The BAPCO School at Zall?q, The Urdu School, The first batch of expatriate Arab teachers, New Items pertaining to Agriculture, The Media, Non-Local Element in the Population, The local Arabs of Bahrain, The Huwalah Arabs, The Bah?rnah Arabs, Geographical Distribution of the Bah?rnah, Linguistic Contact between local and nonlocal elements, Situation in the villages, Previous Studies of East Arabian speech, The Bahrain Petroleum Company and Arabic studies, Further publications on east Arabian speech, Local View on Current Spoken Arabic