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  1. Al-Ageel, H. (2015). Requests in Saudi Pidgin Arabic. Business Management and Strategy, 6 (1), 111-137.
  2. Alanazi, M.S. (2022). Lack of interpretation services for limited English and Arabic proficiency patients in Saudi hospitals: Challenges and perceptions. Saudi Journal of Language Studies, 3(2), pp. 61-75.
  3. Al-Azraqi, M. (2020). Pidginization in Abha, Saudi Arabia: Pathways to multifunctionality. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 35(1), 37-61. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.00047.azr
  4. Albakrawi, H. (2012). The linguistic effect of foreign Asian workers on the Arabic pidgin in Saudi Arabia. Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2(9), 127-133.
  5. Albaqawi, N. (2016). Unity and Diversity within Pidginized Arabic as produced by Asian migrant workers in the Arabian Gulf. Journal of Second Language Teaching and Research, 5(1) (Special Issue)
  6. Alfahad, A. (2023). Arabic Pidgin in the Gulf States: Personal Responsibility and Social Justice. Journal of Linguistic and Literary Studies, 14(1).
  7. Alghamdi, I. (2014). Gulf Pidgin Arabic: A descriptive and statistical analysis of stability. International Journal of Linguistics, 6(6), 110-127. doi: :10.5296/ijl.v6i6.6846, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v6i6.6846
  8. Alhamami, M. (2019). Switching of language varieties in Saudi multilingual hospitals: insiders’ experiences.  Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 41(2), pp. 175-189. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2019.1606227
  9. Al-Haq, F. A. A., Al-Salman, I. (2014). Jordanian Bengali Pidgin Arabic. US-China Foreign Language, 12(5), 331-348.
  10. Alhazmi, M.Z. (2020). Urban Pidgin and Bedouin L2 in the Hijaz. Anthropological Linguistics, 62(4), pp. 391-413.
  11. Al-Jasser, J. A. (2012). Pidginization theory and second language learning/acquisition. Journal of King Saud University-Languages and Translation, 24(2), 71-74.
  12. Al-Jutaili, M. (2018). Alternation on Pharyngalization in Gulf Pidgin Arabic from Sociophonetic Perspective. International Journal of English and Education, 7(1), 49-70.
  13. Aljutaily, M. (2021). An acoustic analysis of monophthong vowels and their allophonic pharyngealized counterparts in the Gulf Pidgin Arabic. مجلة العلوم العربية والإنسانية, 14(4), 113-146.‎
  14. Al-Nofaie, H. (2024). Translanguaging in a beauty salon: Functions of pidgin Arabic in ELF conversations. Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts, 10(2), pp. 188-205.
  15. Alqahtani, M., & Almoaily, M. (2023). Debuccalization in Gulf Pidgin Arabic: OT parallelism or harmonic serialism. Journal of Semitic Studies, 68(1), 139-164.
  16. Al-Rojaie, Y. (2023). Sociolinguistics in Saudi Arabia: Present situation and future directions. Journal of Arabic Sociolinguistics, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.3366/arabic.2023.0006
  17. Alsager, H. N., & Aly, M. S. (2023). The Attitudes Of Students Towards The Usage And Effect Of The Saudi Pidgin Arabic On the Saudi Society: Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University As A Case Study. Ijaz Arabi Journal of Arabic Learning, 6(2). DOI:  https://doi.org/10.18860/ijazarabi.v6i2.21629
  18. Alshammari, W. F. (2021). Tense/Aspect Marking In Arabic-Based Pidgins. Darnioji daugiakalbystė, (18), 14-44. URL: https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=951293
  19. Alshammari, W. F. (2022). Numeral form selection and accommodation in Gulf Pidgin Arabic. Language, Interaction and Acquisition, 13(1), 29-62. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/lia.21010.als
  20. Altakhaineh, A.R.M., Abdul-Salam Al-Namer, & Alnamer, S. (2022). Degemination in Emirati Pidgin Arabic: A Sociolinguistic Perspective. Languages, 7(1), 8. doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7010008
  21. Al-Zubeiry, H. Y. A. (2015). Linguistic Analysis of Saudi Pidginized Arabic as Produced by Asian Foreign Expatriates. International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, 4(2), 47-53.
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  23. Avram, A. (1994). On the morphology of Arabic pidgins and creoles. Institute of Linguistics Bucharest, 121-129.
  24. Avram, A. A. (2010). An outline of romanian pidgin Arabic. Journal of Language Contact, 3(1), 20-38.
  25. Avram, A. (2012). On the functions of fi in the verbal system of Arabic pidgins. Romano-Arabica, 12, 35-58.
  26. Avram, A. (2014). Immigrant workers and language formation: Gulf Pidgin Arabic. Lenguay migracioni, 6(2), 7-40.
  27. Avram, A. (2017). On the periphery of the periphery: Gulf Pidgin Arabic. Lisan Al-Arab, 9, 61-74. https://books.google.ae/books?hl=en&lr=&id=RBwmDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA61&dq=gulf+pidgin+arabic&ots=DLMROb4uwX&sig=OPk2ohYtAsMTuGok8JX9QuGVKMw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=gulf%20pidgin%20arabic&f=false
  28. Avram, A. A. (2017). Superdiversity in the gulf: Gulf pidgin arabic and arabic foreigner talk. Philologica Jassyensia, 26(2), 175-190. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.lib.le.ac.uk/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/superdiversity-gulf-pidgin-arabic-foreigner-talk/docview/1988024801/se-2
  29. Avram, A. A. (2020). “SPREADING THE WORD”: ON THE DIFFUSION OF GULF PIDGIN ARABIC. THE SCIENCE OF LINGUISTICS: PAPERS IN HONOUR OF ȘTEFAN OLTEAN, 11.
  30. Avram, A., Paiş, V., & Tufiş, D. (2020). Towards a Romanian End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition Based on Deepspeech2. Proceedings of the Romanian Academy Series A, 21(4), 395-402.
  31. Avram, A. A. (2022). THE “FEATURE POOL” HYPOTHESIS: THE CASE OF PIDGIN ARABIC. Romano-Arabica, 21(21), 9-40.
  32. Bahloul, M. Bridging the Divide: Exploring Arabic Dialects in the Era of Translation Technologies. Cornell University.
  33. Baker, P. (1996). The potential for the development of Arabic-based and other contact languages along the maritime trade routes between the Middle East and China, from the start of the Christian era. Atlas of languages of intercultural communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas, 2(1), 637-672. DOI:  doi.org/10.1515/9783110819724.2.637
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  35. Bakir, M. J. (2014). The multifunctionality of fii in Gulf Pidgin Arabic. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 29(2), 410-436. doi: https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.29.2.08bak
  36. Baycar, H. (2022). Promoting multiculturalism and tolerance: Expanding the meaning of “unity through diversity” in the United Arab Emirates, Digest of the Middle East, 32(1), pp. 1-20.
  37. Bedairi, L. T., & Al-Doubi, S. (2020). Usage of Arabic Pidgin Language Among Saudi Arabic Speakers and Foreign Workers in Yanbu. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 7(3), pp. 121-141. URL: https://www.jallr.com/~jallrir/index.php/JALLR/article/view/1116
  38. Bettega, S. (2019). Genitive Markers in Omani Arabic. Romano-Arabica, 19(19), pp. 223-237.
  39. Bizri, F. (2005). Le pidgin madame: Un nouveau pidgin arabe. La Linguistique, 41 fasc. 2/2005, 54-66.
  40. Bizri, F. (2009). Sinhala in contact with Arabic: the birth of a new pidgin in the Middle East. In R Singh, (Ed.), Annual review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics (pp. 135-148). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110225600
  41. Bizri, F. (2014). Unity and diversity across Asian migrant Arabic Pidgins in the Middle East. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 29(2), 391-415. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.29.2.07biz
  42. Bizri, F. (2018). Pidgin as a counterlanguage: Asian labour migrants and Arab employers speaking. Language Ecology, 2(1-2), pp. 128-146.
  43. Dakkak, N. (2022). “ANA MAFI KHOUF MIN KAFEEL”: COUNTERNARRATIVES IN COMEDIC VIDEO REPRESENTATIONS OF MIGRANT WORKERS IN THE ARAB GULF STATES. Mashriq & Mahjar, Suppl.Special Issue: MENA Migrants and Diasporas in Twenty-First-Century Media, 9(1), 12-40. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.lib.le.ac.uk/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/ana-mafi-khouf-min-kafeel-counternarratives/docview/2699753579/se-2
  44. El Zahraa, F., Nawawi, M., & Muttaqin, Z. (2024). Sociolinguistic Content in Training Courses: Pidgin Arabic and White Dialect for Bus Drivers. Tanwir Arabiyyah: Arabic As Foreign Language Journal, 4(2). URL: https://jurnal.umsb.ac.id/index.php/aflj/article/view/6012
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  50. Hussain, R., Asif, M., & Khan, M. Z. (2021). Perceptions of Arab Non-linguists about New Pidgin ‘Urdubic’. Al Khadim Research Journal of Islamic Culture and Civilization, 2(2), 13-20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.53575/arjicc.E2-v2.2(21)13-20
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  52. Kaye, A.S. (2005). A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 125(3), pp. 447-448.
  53. Khamaiseh, S.K. & Bader, Y.F. (2025). A Phonetic Description of Arabic Spoken by Indian Workers in Jordan. Forum for Linguistic Studies, 7(1), pp. 313-328.
  54. Louhichi, I. (2023). On the etymology and distribution of verb forms in Arabic-based pidgins: A usage-based approach. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.00120.lou
  55. Louhici, I. (2023). What can the stories of a frog tell us about motion event description in Gulf Pidgin Arabic? Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 39(2), pp. 313-338.
  56. Mobarki, Y. A. A. (2020). From locative existential construction fi (ih) to a TMA/progressive marker: Grammaticalization of fi (ih) in Gulf Arabic Pidgin. Journal of Historical Linguistics, 10(1), 111-135. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.16026.mob
  57. Motanya, C.C. (2017). Nigerian Pidgin: A Means of Human Development. Journal of Arts and Humanities, 18(2), 179.
  58. Næss, U.G. (2018). The impact of work environment on verbs in Gulf Pidgin Arabic. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 33(2), 362-385. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.00019.nae de
  59. Pattadath, B. (2020). The Blurred Boundaries of Migration: Transnational Flows of Women Domestic Workers from Kerala to UAE. Social Change, 50(1), 95-108.
  60. Pidgin, O. G. A. O. (2023). GULF PIDGIN ARABIC: TRANSIENT LEARNER VARIETY OF GULF ARABIC OR PIDGIN? ANDREI A. AVRAM. Language and Communication in the Digital Age, 112.
  61. Potsdam, E., & Alanazi, M. (2014). Fi in Gulf Pidgin Arabic. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 35, 9-29. doi: https://doi.org/10.17161/KWPL.1808.15946
  62. Salem, A.A.M.S. (2013). Linguistic Features of Pidgin Arabic in Kuwait. English Language Teaching, 6(5), 105-110.
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  64. Turkistani, S., & Almoaily, M. (2023). Language Shift or Maintenance? An Intergenerational Study of the Tibetan Community in Saudi Arabia. International Journal of Language and Literary Studies, 5(3), pp. 301-314. http://doi.org/ 10.36892/ijlls.v5i3.1407
  65. Versteegh, K. (2014). Speaking of the past: The development of past time reference in Arabic pidgins. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 29(2), 211-231. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.29.2.02ver
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