¹ XXXI, 3, 1968, 515–25. In the system of transcription used here ṭ, ḏ, ṣ, ṩ, and ḳ are glottalized consonants; ǵ is a palatized variant of g; ś, Ź, and ź are lateṙals; ṩ and ṩ are pronounced with protrusion of the lips, and ź with more friction than ź. Ź is an allophone of 1, ṩ an allophone of k and an independent phoneme (both are g in Eastern Jibbāli), and ṩ (Eastern ṣ) is an allophone of k and perhaps an independent phoneme, b and m are elided in intervocalic position, the latter with residual nasalization: thus emƏ-> ī, etc.

² The subjunctive in J has the function of both subjunctive and jussive in C(lassical) A(rabic) and, with the particle ḥ- or ḥa-, forms a future tense. The conditional, which corresponds formally (viz. in its n suffix) to the CA modus energicus, occurs mostly in hypothetical conditional sentences.

³ ǝt- or t-, usually it- after the preformative d-.

⁴ The n- is strictly speaking incorrect, but many such forms are double-marked.

⁵ The e- in such forms can alternatively be considered to be part of the pre-formative d-, dǝ-: thus de-ḥōrkun, etc. In general the vowel quality of anaptyctics is subject to variation.

⁶ The 1- in subj. forms occurs only where there is no pers. pronoun suffix, or where this suffix is vocalic (thus 1 e.s.ə-, but not 3 m.s. y-/i-).

⁷ Or effət/efflət: on this gemination cf. ‘Gemination of the Jibbāli language of Dhofar’, ZAL, IV, 1980, 62–71Google Scholar .

⁸ Pattern usually ytεCCəC, etc.

⁹ The examples given here are all in Central Jibbāli. It is interesting that there is fluctuation in usage with intensive-conative verbs also in Eastern Jibbāli.

¹⁰ Quadriliteral verbs of this pattern all have an ən-prefix. Compare also the conspectus of verbal forms given above. This ən-prefix occurs otherwise only with one or two triliteral verbs as, e.g., anḥérək, to move (intr.).

¹¹ However, the speaker, Sālim Bakhīt, was doubtful of the indicative forms.