The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft)

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Frontmatter Foreword Contents 01. Introduction I. Semitic in an Afroasiatic Context 02. Semitic-Egyptian Relations 03. Semitic-Berber Relations 04. Semitic-Chadic Relations 05. Semitic-Cushitic/ Omotic Relations II. Reconstructing Proto-Semitic and Models of Classification 06. Proto-Semitic Phonetics and Phonology 07. Reconstructive Morphology 08. Proto-Semitic Lexicon 09. Phyla and Waves: Models of Classification of the Semitic Languages III. The Semitic Languages and Dialects I: Their Typology 10. Morphological Typology of Semitic 11. Syntactic Typology of Semitic IV. The Semitic Languages and Dialects II: East Semitic 12. Akkadian in General 13. Eblaite and Old Akkadian 14. Babylonian and Assyrian 15. Akkadian and Sumerian Language Contact 16. Akkadian as a Diplomatic Language 17. Akkadian and Aramaic Language Contact V. The Semitic Languages and Dialects III: North-West Semitic 18. Northwest Semitic in General 19. Amorite 20. Ugaritic 21. Phoenician and Punic 22. Biblical Hebrew 23. Mishnaic Hebrew 24. Modern Hebrew 25. Hebrew as the Language of Judaism 26. The Re-Emergence of Hebrew as a National Language 27. Old Aramaic 28. Imperial Aramaic 29. Imperial Aramaic as an Administrative Language of the Achaemenid Period 30. Late Imperial Aramaic 31. Jewish Palestinian Aramaic 32. Samaritan Aramaic 33. Christian Palestinian Aramaic 34. Syriac 35. Syriac as the Language of Eastern Christianity 36. Jewish Babylonian Aramaic 37. Mandaic 38. Western Neo-Aramaic 39. Ṭuroyo and Mlaḥsô 40. North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic 41. Neo-Mandaic 42. Language Contact between Aramaic Dialects and Iranian 43. Aramaic-Arabic Language Contact VI. The Semitic Languages and Dialects IV: Languages of the Arabian Peninsula 44. Ancient North Arabian 45. Classical Arabic 46. Arabic as the Language of Islam 47. Middle Arabic 48. Creating a Modern Standard Language from Medieval Tradition - The Nahḍa and the Arabic Academies 49. Modern Standard Arabic 50. Arabic Dialects (general article) 51. Dialects of the Arabian Peninsula 52. Arabic Dialects of Mesopotamia 53. Dialects of the Levant 54. Dialects of Egypt and Sudan 55. Arabic in the North African Region 56. Arabic Sociolinguistics 57. Arabic Urban Vernaculars 58. Arabic-based Pidgins and Creoles 59. Berber and Arabic Language Contact 60. Arabic-Persian Language Contact 61. Language Contact between Arabic and Modern European Languages 62. Maltese as a National Language 63. Ancient South Arabian 64. Modern South Arabian VII. The Semitic Languages and Dialects V: Ethio-Semitic Languages 65. Ethio-Semitic in General 66. Old Ethiopic 67. Tigre 68. Tigrinya 69. Tigrinya as National Language of Eritrea and Tigray 70. Amharic 71. The Role of Amharic as a National Language and an African lingua franca 72. Gurage 73. Harari 74. Ethiosemitic-Cushitic Language Contact Terminological index