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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents IX
3. List of Symbols XV
4. Foreword XXI
5. Acknowledgements XXVII
6. Chapter 1. The Ethnic, Linguistic and Cultural Identity of Modern Assyrians 1
7. Chapter 2. Bilingualism: A Salient and Dynamic Feature of Ancient Civilizations 15
8. Chapter 3. ‘Bi-’ and ‘Multi-’ Situations in Writing Systems, Writing Mediums and Writing Implements 37
9. Chapter 4. Arab/Muslim Scientific Heritage: A Mono or Multi-Ethnic/Religious Enterprise? 51
10. Chapter 5. A Comparative Study of Petnames in English and Assyrian 67
11. Chapter 6. The Role of Aspiration in the Transliteration of Loanwords in Aramaic and Arabic 79
12. Chapter 7. Recent Demographic Changes in Aramaic- Speaking Population of Iraq: Return of some Phonological Features of Classical Aramaic 93
13. Chapter 8. Aspiration, Spirantization and Approximation in Neo-Aramaic: a more Refined Identification 103
14. Chapter 9. The Destiny of Modern Syriac 113
15. Chapter 10. Arabic and Spanish: Linguistic and Cultural Interactions 137
16. Chapter 11. Empowering Arabic Orthography for better Transliteration of Foreign Languages 153
17. Chapter 12. Word Inflation vs. Word Deflation: A Major Source of Mispronunciation among Arab Learners of English 167
18. Chapter 13. Formation of Sound Plurals and Duals in Arabic: A Phonetic/Phonological Approach 181
19. Chapter 14. An Aerodynamic, Proprioceptive and Perceptual Interpretation of Sībawayhi’s Misplacement of /ط/ and /ق/ with Majhūra Consonants 195
20. Chapter 15. The Sun or Moon Status of Arabic <ج>: A Descriptive Perspective 207
21. Chapter 16. Arabic /q ق/: A Voiceless Unaspirated Uvular Plosive 217
22. Appendix 221
23. Glossary 295
24. Index 303