Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION, Field Work and the Informants, Tape recordings and Transcriptions, Arrangement of the Material, The Schools and the Emergence of Pan-Arabic 'koine' Forms, The earliest missionary schools, The Hid?ya School, Traditional Bah?rnah schools, The BAPCO School at Zall?q, The Urdu School, The first batch of expatriate Arab teachers, New Items pertaining to Agriculture, The Media, Non-Local Element in the Population, The local Arabs of Bahrain, The Huwalah Arabs, The Bah?rnah Arabs, Geographical Distribution of the Bah?rnah, Linguistic Contact between local and nonlocal elements, Situation in the villages, Previous Studies of East Arabian speech, The Bahrain Petroleum Company and Arabic studies, Further publications on east Arabian speech, Local View on Current Spoken Arabic

About the Author

Mahdi Abdalla Al-Tajir