Khuzestani Arabic

Khuzestani Arabic is spoken in Ahvaz, Hoveyzeh, Bostan, Susangerd, Shush, Abadan, Khorramshahr, Shadegan, Hamidiyeh, Karun, and Bawi. ==Contact and lexis==

Khuzestani Arabic is in contact with Bakhtiari Lurish, Persian, and other varieties of SMA. Although the lexis of the dialect is primarily composed of Arabic words, it also has Persian, English, French and Turkish loanwords. In the northern and eastern cities of Khuzestan, Luri is spoken in addition to Persian, and the Arabic of the Kamari Arabs of this region is "remarkably influenced" by Luri. In cities in Khuzestan such as Abadan, some of the new generations, especially women, often mainly speak Persian. Some Khuzestani Arabic speakers furthermore only converse in Persian at home with their children. ==Phonology==

Vowels • Sounds may be heard as back when in the context of emphatic or dorsal consonant sounds. Consonants Even in the most formal of conventions, pronunciation depends upon a speaker's background. Nevertheless, the number and phonetic character of most of the 28 consonants has a broad degree of regularity among Arabic-speaking regions. Arabic is particularly rich in uvular, pharyngeal, and pharyngealized ("emphatic") sounds. The emphatic coronals (, , , and ) cause assimilation of emphasis to adjacent non-emphatic coronal consonants. The phonemes ⟨پ⟩ and ⟨ڤ⟩ (not used by all speakers) are only occasionally considered to be part of the phonemic inventory; they exist only in foreign words and they can be pronounced as ⟨ب⟩ and ⟨ف⟩, respectively, depending on the speaker. Phonetic notes: • and occur mostly in borrowings from Persian, and may be assimilated to or in some speakers. • is pronunciation of // in Khuzestani Arabic and the rest of southern Mesopotamian dialects. • The gemination of the flap /ɾ/ results in a trill [r]. == See also ==