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The Arabic dialect of Ǧisir izZarga:
The village of Ǧisir izZarga is the last remaining Arab village on the Israeli coast line, located half way between Tel Aviv and Haifa. Its establishment is said to have taken place in the 19th century, when the clans of Šihāb and Naǧǧār arrived from Egypt and the clans of Ǧurbān and ʿAmmāš came from the Jordanian Ghor. This work aims to describe the main linguistic features of the type of Arabic spoken in Ǧisir izZarga and position it inside the greater group of Syro-Palestinian dialects. The primary data used for this work are recordings made in the village during fieldwork conducted in 2011-2012. Supplementary material was extracted from a CD containing television interviews conducted in the village some two or three decades ago.