Spoken Khaleeji Corpus

The Spoken Khaleeji Corpus is a linguistic ethnographic project that seeks to build a database of oral history interviews with long-term inhabitants of the United Arab Emirates and the wider Gulf region. Interviews will revolve around language, verbal arts, performance, and histories of migration, identity, and belonging – exploring experiences of hybridity both through the contents of the interviews and through an examination of the linguistic practices of interviewees.

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