Linguistic and Cultural Studies in Aramaic and Arabic

Description

The book affords solutions to some significant phonetics and phonology in Aramaic and Arabic. In the area of human language maintenance and erosion, the dynamics and timelines of such language phenomena are highlighted with relevance to Mesopotamia. Additionally, the book poses some innovative views pertinent to the progress of civilization from concreteness to abstraction with particular emphasis on writing systems Table of Contents List of Symbols Foreword Acknowledgements Chapter 1. The Ethnic, Linguistic and Cultural Identity of Modern Assyrians Chapter 2. Bilingualism: A Salient and Dynamic Feature of Ancient Civilizations Chapter 3. ‘Bi-’ and ‘Multi-’ Situations in Writing Systems, Writing Mediums and Writing Implements Chapter 4. Arab/Muslim Scientific Heritage: A Mono or Multi-Ethnic/Religious Enterprise? Chapter 5. A Comparative Study of Petnames in English and Assyrian Chapter 6. The Role of Aspiration in the Transliteration of Loanwords in Aramaic and Arabic Chapter 7. Recent Demographic Changes in Aramaic- Speaking Population of Iraq: Return of some Phonological Features of Classical Aramaic Chapter 8. Aspiration, Spirantization and Approximation in Neo-Aramaic: a more Refined Identification Chapter 9. The Destiny of Modern Syriac Chapter 10. Arabic and Spanish: Linguistic and Cultural Interactions Chapter 11. Empowering Arabic Orthography for better Transliteration of Foreign Languages Chapter 12. Word Inflation vs. Word Deflation: A Major Source of Mispronunciation among Arab Learners of English Chapter 13. Formation of Sound Plurals and Duals in Arabic: A Phonetic/Phonological Approach Chapter 14. An Aerodynamic, Proprioceptive and Perceptual Interpretation of Sībawayhi’s Misplacement of /ط/ and /ق/ with Majhūra Consonants Chapter 15. The Sun or Moon Status of Arabic : A Descriptive Perspective Chapter 16. Arabic /q ق/: A Voiceless Unaspirated Uvular Plosive Appendix Glossary Index