Sound Adoption in Mosuli Arabic via Lexical Borrowing from Turkish and Persian Languages

This research aims to investigate how the Mosuli Arabic consonant sound system has been enhanced by loanwords from Turkish and Persian. The study proceeds to verify the hypotheses that: first, Turkish and Persian loanwords impact MA sound system by producing the foreign phonemes /p, , t/, and second, these borrowed sounds are phonemes not allophones of other phonemes in MA sound system. The data consist of 140 loanwords (70 Turkish loanwords and 70 Persian loanwords) which are collected from the literature and previous studies. The adoption of these foreign sounds as distinct phonemes was examined via utilizing a minimal pair test. The study concludes via proving that MA consonant system has increased due to borrowing words from Turkish and Persian for many reasons such as: contact, social reason, cultural, political, economic, etc.