Abstract
This article is vital folkloristically and linguistically since it gives us details on Druze dialects in
Northern Israel. These dialects as a whole had not been well researched until now. The village of Abu-Snān is
located some ten kilometers northeast of Acre. The holy site of the village is a mazār, and not a maqām. The
prophet Zakariyya is vindictive by nature – a characteristic also manifested in the two texts presented in this
article. Dialectologically, the Druze-Arabic dialect of Abu-Snān village shares common features with other
Druze dialects in the Galilee region and in Lebanon, Syria and even in Jordan, yet it can be regarded as
belonging to the sub-northern Palestinian coastal dialects in Israel which share also conjoint characteristics
with some Moslem and Christian North-Palestinian dialects.
Northern Israel. These dialects as a whole had not been well researched until now. The village of Abu-Snān is
located some ten kilometers northeast of Acre. The holy site of the village is a mazār, and not a maqām. The
prophet Zakariyya is vindictive by nature – a characteristic also manifested in the two texts presented in this
article. Dialectologically, the Druze-Arabic dialect of Abu-Snān village shares common features with other
Druze dialects in the Galilee region and in Lebanon, Syria and even in Jordan, yet it can be regarded as
belonging to the sub-northern Palestinian coastal dialects in Israel which share also conjoint characteristics
with some Moslem and Christian North-Palestinian dialects.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 119-129 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | ROMANO-ARABICA |
| Volume | 17 |
| State | Published - 2017 |