A study of phonological and lexical systems in Al-Oyoun’s dialect

The present study aims to cover some aspects of the dialect of Al-Oyoun city in Al-Ahsa and whether there is a kind of reciprocal relationships among different Saudi dialects. The present study covers a number of issues, such as the geographic details about Al- Oynoun city in Saudi Arabia, the main features of AlQyoun dialect. The oral data used in the present study is collected from the natural speech of 20 people who were grown up in both Al-Oyoun and Al-hoota. The 20 participants were interviewed and their natural speech was recorded. Phonological and lexical aspects of the representative samples have been linguistically analyzed. The study has reached a number of important findings that there is a kind of mutual relationship among Saudi dialects especially when there is a close contact between the people of two different dialects