The Situation of The Arabic Dialect Spoken in Mardin

The Arabic dialect spoken in the city of Mardin and the villages and towns that follow a model is striking in all respects. As it seems that it was cut off from other Arabic dialects due to the rugged geographical location, which seems to have led to this dialect not being in contact with other Arabic dialects, especially Bedouin dialects, whose owners may migrate usually between different regions. And the juxtaposition of other languages such as Syriac, Kurdish and Turkish, on the other hand. It has also remained under the control of the official Turkish language and at an increasing rate since the beginning of the twentieth century until this day and there has been no significant contact between it and the classical Arabic language at a time when the influence of the media and schools that depended on the classical Arabic language increased in all Arab countries.
As for the linguistic structure, the Arabic dialect spoken in Mardin, which is classified within the Jazrawiyya dialect of Arabic, is distinguished by many of its phonetic and morphological features, such as retaining the ( - - - ) despite its interaction with other sounds alien to the sound system in the Arabic language (o - - p - g), as well as its keep of the five verbs (al-afal al-khamsa), where the they say ()takleen (you eat), ()takloun (you eat), () yakloun (they eat). They also keep the conjugated pronoun of the first person singular in the past tense as it is, so they say () akaltu (I ate) and the conjugated pronoun of the third person singular, as they say () "ahebkee" (I love you)...
The dialect spoken in Mardin is in common with other Arabic dialects in general and with other branches of the Jarawiyya dialect in particular. However the factors of not using the verb ()shaf (see) and not adding () b in front of the present tense in this dialect can be considered as factors that may distinguish it from the rest of the Arabic dialects. We will try through this research to monitor the situation of the Arabic dialect spoken in Mardin from the aforementioned aspects.