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Abstract

The research addressed the words in which Metathesis and Transposition occurred in the Contemporary Bulayy’s Bedouin Tribe, situated between the governorates of Al-‘Ula and Al-Wajh, paving the way for it with two topics. Firstly: An overview of the study environment and the tribe. Secondly: The linguists’ interpretation of the Metathesis and Transposition and their stand on them. However, the applied study incorporated two topics, firstly: Metathesis.

Second: Transposition. The research studied sixty-two words, of which forty-three words are in the Transposition, while nineteen words are in the Metathesis. The research studied them in a phonetic lexical study, returning the words to their roots, linking them in their lexical connotations, the correctness in them, and the cause of Transposition in terms of the Articulation points of letters and their characteristics, and the interpretations of the ancient and contemporary linguists of them.

The research demonstrated that the basis of Transposition in the vast preponderance of words is due to the convergence of the Articulation points of letters or their partaking in some characteristics and that all the words under study did not change their lexical connotation; Because of their distance from civilized influences, the study also divulges that Metathesis and Transposition have an effect in obscuring access to the origin of lexical material when exploring it. The research relied on the descriptive method.

Keywords: Metathesis, Transposition, Dialects, Linguistics, Bulayy’s Tribe.