A Study on the Phonetic and Morphological Characteristics of the Modern Jordanian Dialect

Abstract

Language is a living phenomenon and consists of many components, including phonemes, part phonemes, which are vowel and consonant phonemes, syllables, supravocal stress, and morphemes which are the ways of inflection and derivation of words. A language, which develops and changes in terms of sound, composition, syntax, consumption, and meaning in time and space, shows a difference between the age in which it was spoken and the previous age. Since Arabic is the language of the Qur’an, the language used in Quranic Arabic (classical Arabic) is protected within the framework of grammatical rules. However, the local (regional) elements used in daily life in the dialect dimension called Ammiyyah (Colloquial Arabic) differ from both Quranic Arabic and the dialects that vary based on geography. In this study, distinctions aremade between the concepts of language, dialect, and accent. Then, sound changes, consumable changes, and local word usages in the Modern Jordanian dialect, which is a dialect of Arabic, are emphasized. What is more, it is aimed at explaining with examples how the sound changes that occur in the Jordanian dialect differ from the Quranic Arabic are between vowels and consonants. In addition, the explain of words and compositions with regard to local usage areas by focusing on the special usage areas of the Jordanian dialect, which differs from morphological prosody in the Arabic of the Qur’an, is done by using document analysis, one of the qualitative research methods.

Keywords

• modern jordanian dialect
• sound changes
• morphological changes
• local words and phrases