Lieutenant Colonel F.B. Longe, Surveyor General of India, Seasons 1904-1905 is ap­ pended. Tape Recordings and Transcriptions The basic material was recorded on tapes, which were then transcribed phonetically on paper. The symbols used for transcriptions were imainly such as those employed by Orientalists. All the tapes were transcribed regardless of the material they contained. Material such as pertaining to folk-lore was only used for whatever relevance it had to this work. The terminology employed for linguistic analysis, corresponds throughout to that normally used by linguists interested in Arabic dialect studies. Arrangement of the Material The material is divided into six parts. Part I (Section A) treats of the pre-lslamic tribes of Bahrain, their descendants in the area, and to some extent, traces the origins of the contemporary Arab population of Bahrain. This was necessitated mainly by the inadequacy of the ethnological data, particularly in respect of the origins of the Bahārnah of Bahrain, prevailing in the literature on the area. In addition, a historical survey of Bahrain is provided in Section B of the same part. Part II is devoted to the phonology of the Bahārnah dialect. Characteristic phono­ logical features and dialectal peculiarities are discussed in this part. Inter-dialectal com­ parisons, where considered necessary because of regional variations etc. are made; and to some degree the Bahārnah forms which diverge from their Anazi counterforms are also considered. Definitions of local terms and occasional diachronic remarks on certain fea­ tures are made. At the start of each part, a brief account of the findings and the topics discussed is given. In Part III of the study the morphology of B is examined. Here, again, a descriptive

DOI link for Lieutenant Colonel F.B. Longe, Surveyor General of India, Seasons 1904-1905 is ap­ pended. Tape Recordings and Transcriptions The basic material was recorded on tapes, which were then transcribed phonetically on paper. The symbols used for transcriptions were imainly such as those employed by Orientalists. All the tapes were transcribed regardless of the material they contained. Material such as pertaining to folk-lore was only used for whatever relevance it had to this work. The terminology employed for linguistic analysis, corresponds throughout to that normally used by linguists interested in Arabic dialect studies. Arrangement of the Material The material is divided into six parts. Part I (Section A) treats of the pre-lslamic tribes of Bahrain, their descendants in the area, and to some extent, traces the origins of the contemporary Arab population of Bahrain. This was necessitated mainly by the inadequacy of the ethnological data, particularly in respect of the origins of the Bahārnah of Bahrain, prevailing in the literature on the area. In addition, a historical survey of Bahrain is provided in Section B of the same part. Part II is devoted to the phonology of the Bahārnah dialect. Characteristic phono­ logical features and dialectal peculiarities are discussed in this part. Inter-dialectal com­ parisons, where considered necessary because of regional variations etc. are made; and to some degree the Bahārnah forms which diverge from their Anazi counterforms are also considered. Definitions of local terms and occasional diachronic remarks on certain fea­ tures are made. At the start of each part, a brief account of the findings and the topics discussed is given. In Part III of the study the morphology of B is examined. Here, again, a descriptive

Lieutenant Colonel F.B. Longe, Surveyor General of India, Seasons 1904-1905 is ap­ pended. Tape Recordings and Transcriptions The basic material was recorded on tapes, which were then transcribed phonetically on paper. The symbols used for transcriptions were imainly such as those employed by Orientalists. All the tapes were transcribed regardless of the material they contained. Material such as pertaining to folk-lore was only used for whatever relevance it had to this work. The terminology employed for linguistic analysis, corresponds throughout to that normally used by linguists interested in Arabic dialect studies. Arrangement of the Material The material is divided into six parts. Part I (Section A) treats of the pre-lslamic tribes of Bahrain, their descendants in the area, and to some extent, traces the origins of the contemporary Arab population of Bahrain. This was necessitated mainly by the inadequacy of the ethnological data, particularly in respect of the origins of the Bahārnah of Bahrain, prevailing in the literature on the area. In addition, a historical survey of Bahrain is provided in Section B of the same part. Part II is devoted to the phonology of the Bahārnah dialect. Characteristic phono­ logical features and dialectal peculiarities are discussed in this part. Inter-dialectal com­ parisons, where considered necessary because of regional variations etc. are made; and to some degree the Bahārnah forms which diverge from their Anazi counterforms are also considered. Definitions of local terms and occasional diachronic remarks on certain fea­ tures are made. At the start of each part, a brief account of the findings and the topics discussed is given. In Part III of the study the morphology of B is examined. Here, again, a descriptive