Thread by @PhDniX

The dialect of Jabal Rāziḥ is one of my personal favorite dialects of Arabic; It's intensely weird and massively under-researched. It's spoken in the north of Yemen. Let's read a text together from Behnstedt's description. Can you make sense of it? books.google.nl/books?id=pvKmQ…

Jūk mer-Rāziḥ, wa-ṭráguk wa-lagyuk bu Saʕārah wāḥid sawwāg, rukbuk miʕō wa-ṭrágnā sī wuṣílnā Rās Jīfān wa-tʕáṭṭala ʕalḗnā s-sayyārit.
جوك مِرّازِح، وَطْرَڨُك وَلَڨْيُك بو سَعارة واحِد سَوّاڨ، رُكْبُك مِعُه وَطْرَڨْنا سي وُصِلنا راس جيفان وَتْعَطَّلَ عَلَينا سَّيّارِت

Jūk: I came', from Jā 'to come' with the perfect 1st person -uk (not -t/-tu!), which affects the vowel.
meC-: 'from'. Rāziḥīt assimilates ever /n/ to the following consonant.
ṭarag: 'to travel' + -uk 1st person
lagī: 'to meet' + -uk
bu: 'in, at'
wāḥid: 'one'
sawwāg: driver

rikib 'to get on (a vehicle, horse)' + -uk, affects preceding vowel.
miʕ-ō 'with him'
sī 'towards; until'
wuṣil 'to arrive' + -nā perf. 1st person plural
tʕaṭṭal 'to break down' + -a perf. 3rd person feminine

C- 'the' assimilates to all consonants, not just the šamsiyyīn: ib-bagarit 'the cow'
sayyārah 'car'
The feminine ending has an odd allomorphy: it's -it in construct and definite form; -ah in the indefinite:
ib-bagarit 'the cow'
bagarit fulān 'the cow of so-and-so'
bagarah 'a cow'

Translation: "I came from Rāziḥ, and I made my way, and I met some driver in Saʕārah; I travelled with him; and we went our way until we arrived at Rās Jīfān and our car broke down on us."
Want to now how this continues? Stay tuned, I'll be posting follow-ups the coming days.

A small correction it's /aṭrag/ 'to be on ones way', an ʔafʕal verb, not a faʕal verb.

ʔaḥtājuk ʔinnī ʔaṭlaʕ ʔajī bi mhandiz yiṣálliḥ-āh
أَحْتاجُك إنّي أَطْلَع أَجي بِمْهَنْدِز يِصَلِّحاه

ʔaḥtāj ''to need' + -uk (1sg)
ʔin- 'that' + nī (1sg)
ṭalaʕ 'to go away', ʔa-ṭlaʕ imperfect 1sg
jā + bi- 'to bring', ʔa-jī imperfect 1sg
bi- instead of bu- for 'in, with' influence from 'normal' Yemeni?
mhandiz 'mechanic'
ṣallaḥ 'to repair', yi-ṣalliḥ 3sg.m.
-āh 'it' (fem)

"I needed to go away and bring a mechanic to repair it"

wu-śállē m-mihandiz giṭaʕ ġiyār wu-ʔadawát-ōh, wa mā lagínā sayyārah.
وُڜَلّٜىٰ مِّهَنْدِز ڨِطَع غِيار وُأدَواتُه وَما لَڨينا سَيّارة

śallē: 'to take' with the retention of Proto-Arabic lateral *ś; But merging the geminated root with the final weak
m-mihandiz: 'the mechanic', fully assimilated definite article.
giṭaʕ 'parts' ġiyār 'extra': 'spare parts'
ʔadawāt 'tools'
mā 'not'
lagīnā 'we found'
sayyārah 'car'

"And the mechanic too spare parts and his tools, but we did not find a car"

diʕisnā sī mafrag xaṭṭ Rāziḥ, wu-lagínā wāḥid mes-Sārah
دِعِسْنا سي مَفرَڨ خَطّ رازِح، وُلَڨينا واحِد مِسّارة

diʕis 'to walk'
sī 'to, until'
mafrag 'crossing'
xaṭṭ 'road'
lagī 'to meet'
wāḥid 'one, a person'
Sārah Placename.

"We walked to a crossing of the road to Rāziḥ, and we met a person from Sārah."

śallē-nā mʕō galīl wu-ḥaṭṭḗ-nā.
ڜَلّٜينا مْعُه ڨَليل وُحَطّٜينا

śallē 'take' + -nā 'us'
m(a)ʕ 'with' + ō 'him'
galīl 'a little'
ḥattē 'to leave' + -nā 'us'; apparently a verb derived from the preposition ḥaṭṭē 'until'.

"He took us with him for a bit, and then left us".

I apparently suffered from a moment of dot-blindness; As aḥmad says: it's:
ḥaṭṭē-nā "He left us standing". Oops.

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