Dr. Mansour Saad Elsohaimy1,*, Dr. Ahmed Ramadan Mohamed Ali2
1Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia
2Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, New Valley University, Egypt
Issue: 34 | Pages: 184-192 | December 2024-|-https://doi.org/10.54940/ll66136441-|-PDF
Received:-26/10/2022-|-Revised:-9/11/2022-|-Accepted:-13/12/2022
*Corresponding Author:[email protected]
Abstract
The current study aims to identify the Meccan child's lexicon between the formal and colloquial language. The study sample included (401) boys and girls from Makkah Al-Mukarramah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In the first semester of the academic year 2021-2022, a list of children's interrogation questions (prepared by the researchers) was applied to them. The results of the study indicated that there are statistically significant differences between the average scores of the sample children in the classical Arabic language and their average scores in the colloquial Arabic, in favor of the classical language, for all fields of the vocabulary of the child’s Meccan lexicon (food and drink, home, means of transportation and transportation, family and relatives, and means of Media, stories and tales, time and place, disease and treatment, animals, birds and plants, play and sports, and the total score of Standard Arabic and Colloquial Arabic).
Keywords
Classical Arabic, Colloquial Arabic, the language of the Meccan child, the lexicon, childhood, Makkah Al-Mukarramah, KSA Vision 2030.
How to Cite
1. Elsohaimy M, Ali A. The Makki Child's Dictionary between the Classical and Colloquial Languages. Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Language Sciences and Literature. 2024 December; (34):184–192. doi:https://doi.org/10.54940/ll66136441
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