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An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2015
ISBN
9789004289291, 9789004289826
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (17312285 bytes)
Series
Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 80
Edition
1st
Pages
383\383
Time added
2015-04-07 13:05:40

Description

This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the dialects of Old Arabic attested in the Safaitic script, an Ancient North Arabian alphabet used mainly in the deserts of southern Syria and north-eastern Jordan in the pre-Islamic period. It is the first complete grammar of any Ancient North Arabian corpus, making it an important contribution to the fields of Arabic and Semitic studies. The volume covers topics in script and orthography, phonology, morphology, and syntax, and contains an appendix of over 500 inscriptions and an annotated dictionary. The grammar is based on a corpus of 33,000 Safaitic inscriptions.

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