Mehri Lexicon

Mehri Lexicon PDF Author: T. M. Johnstone
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136349391
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 747

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Book Description
Published in 2000, Mehri Lexicon is a valuable contribution to the field of Asian Studies.

Mehri Lexicon

Mehri Lexicon PDF Author: T. M. Johnstone
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136349391
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 747

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Book Description
Published in 2000, Mehri Lexicon is a valuable contribution to the field of Asian Studies.

Mehri Lexicon and English-Mehri Word-list

Mehri Lexicon and English-Mehri Word-list PDF Author: Thomas M. Johnstone
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0728601370
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 747

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Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Jibbali (Shaḥri) Language of Oman

The Jibbali (Shaḥri) Language of Oman PDF Author: Aaron D. Rubin
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004262857
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 748

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Book Description
This book contains a detailed grammatical description of Jibbali (or Shahri), an unwritten Semitic language spoken in the Dhofar region of Oman, along with seventy texts. This is the first ever comprehensive grammar of Jibbali, and the first collection of texts published in over a hundred years. Topics in phonology, all aspects of morphology, and a variety of syntactic features are covered. The texts include those collected by the late T. M. Johnstone (newly edited and translated), as well as new texts collected by the author, while the grammar is based both on the texts and on original fieldwork. Semitists, linguists, and anyone interested in the folklore of Arabia will find much valuable data and analysis in this volume.

The Mehri Language of Oman

The Mehri Language of Oman PDF Author: Aaron Rubin
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004182632
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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Book Description
This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of Mehri, an unwritten Semitic language spoken in Oman and Yemen. It is the first grammar of its kind, and the first of any Modern South Arabian language in a century.

Omani Mehri

Omani Mehri PDF Author: Aaron D. Rubin
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004362479
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 898

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Book Description
This book contains a comprehensive grammatical description of Mehri, an unwritten Semitic language spoken in the Dhofar region of Oman, along with a corpus of more than one hundred texts. Topics in phonology, all aspects of morphology, and a variety of syntactic features are covered. The texts, presented with extensive commentary, were collected by the late T.M. Johnstone. Some are published here for the first time, while the rest have been newly edited and translated, based on the original manuscripts. Semitists, linguists, and anyone interested in the folklore of southern Arabia will find much valuable data and analysis in this volume, which is the most detailed grammatical study of a Modern South Arabian language yet published.

Humanism, Culture, and Language in the Near East

Humanism, Culture, and Language in the Near East PDF Author: Georg Krotkoff
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 1575060205
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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Book Description
Essays by 33 colleagues, friends, and students of the Johns Hopkins University Arabist and linguist. Topics include (1) humanism, culture, and literature; (2) Arabic; (3) Aramaic; and (4) Afroasiatic.

The Semitic Languages

The Semitic Languages PDF Author: John Huehnergard
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042965538X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 773

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Book Description
The Semitic Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language clusters within this language family, from their origins in antiquity to their present-day forms. This second edition has been fully revised, with new chapters and a wealth of additional material. New features include the following: • new introductory chapters on Proto-Semitic grammar and Semitic linguistic typology • an additional chapter on the place of Semitic as a subgroup of Afro-Asiatic, and several chapters on modern forms of Arabic, Aramaic and Ethiopian Semitic • text samples of each individual language, transcribed into the International Phonetic Alphabet, with standard linguistic word-by-word glossing as well as translation • new maps and tables present information visually for easy reference. This unique resource is the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics and language. It will be of interest to researchers and anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic typology, linguistic anthropology and language development.

Jibbāli Lexicon

Jibbāli Lexicon PDF Author: Thomas M. Johnstone
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Book Description
Jibbali is one of the Modern South Arabian languages spoken in South Arabia and Socotra. It is the language of Dhofar. This first complete lexicon of the language will be one of great interest since earlier information has been very unreliable.

Phonologies of Asia and Africa

Phonologies of Asia and Africa PDF Author: Alan S. Kaye
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 1575060191
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1075

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Book Description
This large, 2-volume work presents more than 50 authoritative articles by leading specialists on a wide variety of ancient, medieval, and modern languages and dialects of the greater Near East and Africa, from a variety of language families. The articles are concise descriptive narratives presenting the basics of the phonology of the languages and dialects, with an emphasis on the phonological processes operative in them. A major goal of the work is a definite statement on the language and/or dialect in question with regard to genetics, typology, and/or universal elements. Of interest to general linguists as well as those specializing in Afro-Asiatic languages.

Comparative Lexical Studies in Neo-Mandaic

Comparative Lexical Studies in Neo-Mandaic PDF Author: Hezy Mutzafi
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004257055
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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Book Description
Neo-Mandaic is the last phase of a pre-modern vernacular closely related to Classical Mandaic, a Mesopotamian Aramaic idiom of Late Antiquity. This unique language is critically endangered, being spoken by a few hundred adherents of Mandaeism, the only gnostic religion to have survived until the present day. All other Mandaeans, numbering several tens of thousands, are Arabic or Persian speakers. The present study concerns the least known aspect of the language, namely its lexicon as reflected in both its dialects, those of the cities of Ahvaz and Khorramshahr in the Iranian province of Khuzestan. Apart from lexicological and etymological studies in Neo-Mandaic itself, the book discusses the contribution of the Neo-Mandaic lexis to our knowledge of literary Mandaic as well as aspects of this lexis within the framework of Neo-Aramaic as a whole.