TY - BOOK ID - 77935452 TI - Najdi Arabic : central Arabian PY - 1994 VL - 1 SN - 9786613222480 9027283125 1283222485 9789027283122 9027238014 9789027238016 155619725X 9781556197253 PB - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : ©1994 John Benjamins Pub., DB - UniCat KW - Arabic language KW - Semitic languages KW - Dialects KW - Grammar. KW - -Grammar KW - -Arabic language - - Grammar - Dialects - - Saudi Arabia - - Najd KW - -Arabic language UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77935452 AB - The region of Najd in Central Arabia has always been regarded as inaccessible, ringed by a belt of sand deserts, the Nafud, Dahana and the Rub' al-Khali and often with its population at odds with the rulers of the outer settled lands. It is however the centre of a purely Arabian culture based on a partnership between bedouin camel husbandry and settled palm cultivation. Possibly as a result of overpopulation the bedouin have periodically spread over into the lands of the Fertile Crescent. Because of their isolated position the Najdi dialect is of a very interesting and archaic type showing ver ER -