Diglossia in the Prophet's Traditions

زبان و ادبیات عربی

Article 4, Volume 3, Issue 5, January 2012   

Document Type: research article

DOI: 10.22067/jall.v3i5.11234

Author

Dr. Ruhollah Sayyadinezhad^*

Abstract

Language as a social phenomenon bridges between human life and his thoughts. The Prophet Mohammad-PBUH- best used this active factor to transfer the ideas through an eloquent speech. Ancient and contemporary Arabic linguists have confessed his great divine talent and eloquence. Thus his sacred speech texts-Traditions- are considered one of the most important resources of linguistic and syntactic studies .The language of Tradition did not put an end to regional dialects and this is why diglossia can be observed in the Prophet's Traditions .This phenomenon is a good field for researches at various syntactic, morphologic and phonologic aspects.
The Prophet didn’t consider any special dialect or language as superior to others. While using a specific dialect, he would use all phonologic capacities
helping the eloquence of his speech. Hence, no one can claim that diglossia in the Traditions is a sign of weakness ,because in the process of word transformation ,the nature of the word has remained intact and the similarity has been observed.

Key words: Traditions. dialect, linguistics, syntax and morphology, tribe.