File XXIII/8 'Travels in Oman. Visit of B. Thomas to the Musandam Peninsula. 1928. Notes on Shihuh dialects & people, also Kumzaris' [‎11r] (21/68)

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a majority of Umi oi th«
A%1 aTC Of bl^ bOJttt* Celtic la
ipprirtOTiiMit,n typo thmi either of tfcair follow
trlbosmn ^Jhuhuri or ^unmrl|thoy art? 1 thin;: tbo tn^uo
ahi2iuli« HUrtr omly iMiguago io./grmbio* rboy Mmv Mi a word
of the atraiif.e o&tot&l Aialoet of the XunaMXit* ’ o a forelsnei
«^ho has perhaps of ueoesoity amiulred irabio froa text books
or at the feet of a llterfO'y to^aanan of 3afM-^ or ?amoue f
aad eoaee with fixed Ideas of what la arable awvsi what la not,
thin dial eat trill at first be almost untntelligihl©,but that
it la Arabic anKt no other language there can be little doubt*
T5ile Is of oeuree true of most Badawln speech incli«5ins that
of the 4wmlr # &l<3tant ntel^bom^st^rlth whooe supposed
•laa^ua^ of grmts* 1 hare reecmt oecattloa to obtain
a al l^t familiarity »9ut tho Arable of tli© ^hUSud^ has may
peculiarities which are definitely sug 4 *cetlre of forei&n
iaf 1 uenot^a f notia" *1 y tht? , erelaa ral>ie nlven to long alif.
lev in their reeotenoee• foreiea toftamoe could hare ae
mob left its mark oik their inMMAOlatlen of arable It Is
difficult to understand. Especially lo thlu sc when It Is
noticed that the /arable of the ruMaari ,vhc la perhape
non- •urab In orl|^Ln 9 and of the nhuhuri llrlxu" the coast
and therefore exposed to foreign Influencos^ls free from
seeh eiaH xwimtlea»fflisee dlaleetieal peculiarities of the
interior pastoral tribe wen are ^iven in the Hate added a©
m appendix to this paper. I ms able to fjeasure only two
heads of these wild and sullen nsdevlw and than by Strict for
with T),^ l £C^HtSS
to r:ono at^out It- wi.th qgwUscAtii ■^^: , rex^neeg >c>uld hart
waursd U elr refusal .They sere diaarsed hoiwuor by a wafer
£&de between aiy^elf arid Ute Captain of t)*e l late patrol ship
over which of us had the bigger head .The umuacmnt caused
by our bickorto^s -well rehearsed of eouree»as to who was
to pay who oraated the ateenphero for further head oo^arlsant
of ttiose present, the msustalii
hlhl 1 ms a Ian# head 9 a food