A Comparison of Sana’ani Accent to Eloquent Arabic

The purpose of this paper is to identify some phonetic characteristics of Sana'ani accent and to compare them with the Standard Arabic language. Sana'a dialect or accent Sana'aniye is the accent of Sana'a people, the capital city of Yemen. Perhaps by the influence of the accent of capital city on the other accents, this accent is known as Yamani accent, too. Data were collected through the methods of informal interviews by students of Sana'a university and other native people of Sana'a as Yemen's spokespersons, and direct observation, collective discussions, analyses of personal documents produced within the group, self-analysis and other methods of field research. And in this article, authours' focus is on the phonetic changes in pronouns and verbs in this accent.