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Linguistic and Cultural Studies in Aramaic and Arabic
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Edward Y. Odisho
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English
Published/Copyright:
2009
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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
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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List of Symbols
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Foreword
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Acknowledgements
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Chapter 1. The Ethnic, Linguistic and Cultural Identity of Modern Assyrians
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Chapter 2. Bilingualism: A Salient and Dynamic Feature of Ancient Civilizations
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Chapter 3. ‘Bi-’ and ‘Multi-’ Situations in Writing Systems, Writing Mediums and Writing Implements
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Chapter 4. Arab/Muslim Scientific Heritage: A Mono or Multi-Ethnic/Religious Enterprise?
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Chapter 5. A Comparative Study of Petnames in English and Assyrian
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Chapter 6. The Role of Aspiration in the Transliteration of Loanwords in Aramaic and Arabic
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Chapter 7. Recent Demographic Changes in Aramaic- Speaking Population of Iraq: Return of some Phonological Features of Classical Aramaic
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Chapter 8. Aspiration, Spirantization and Approximation in Neo-Aramaic: a more Refined Identification
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Chapter 9. The Destiny of Modern Syriac
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Chapter 10. Arabic and Spanish: Linguistic and Cultural Interactions
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Chapter 11. Empowering Arabic Orthography for better Transliteration of Foreign Languages
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Chapter 12. Word Inflation vs. Word Deflation: A Major Source of Mispronunciation among Arab Learners of English
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Chapter 13. Formation of Sound Plurals and Duals in Arabic: A Phonetic/Phonological Approach
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Chapter 14. An Aerodynamic, Proprioceptive and Perceptual Interpretation of Sībawayhi’s Misplacement of /ط/ and /ق/ with Majhūra Consonants
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Chapter 15. The Sun or Moon Status of Arabic <ج>: A Descriptive Perspective
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Chapter 16. Arabic /q ق/: A Voiceless Unaspirated Uvular Plosive
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Appendix
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Glossary
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Index
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October 2, 2009
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9781463218195
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