This study introduces the notion of "ecolinguistics" to identify the linguistic correlates of ecological bedouin, village, and urban developments in the Arab wo

As a culture area the Arab world has had different ecological structures — nomadic (bedouin) and sedentary (rural and urban) — with parallel linguistic syst

The term ‘Bedouins’ was given to nomads who came from or lived in the desert, and consisted of a sedentary population (from the badia – desert). However,