Shihhi Arabic (, also known as Shehhi, Khasabi, Musandam Arabic, or Ruþus Al Jibal Arabic) is a dialect of Arabic primarily used in the Musandam Governorate of Oman and the Ras Al Khaimah emirate of the United Arab Emirates. It has been suggested that Shihhi Arabic has two main dialect groups, known as "inland" and "coastal". The Shihuh, Habus, Al Dhuhoori and Al Shemaili tribes have traditionally used the dialect.
Phonology
Consonants
- Sounds /, , / are exclusively heard in loan-words.
- // may be heard as a voiced glottal [] when before voiced consonants.
- The retroflex // may have four different allophones; as a flap [] when in intervocalic positions, as an alveolar [] when before front vowels, or as an alveolar tap or trill [, ] when in word-medial position following a consonant.
- In some dialects *á has been replaced by a pharyngealized glottal stop [].
Vowels
- Short sounds /, / when in unstressed positions are heard as a mid-central [].
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