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Dialect Atlas of North Yemen and Adjacent Areas
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Peter Behnstedt
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Edited by:
Gwendolin Goldbloom
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2016
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About this book
Since the author's publication of Die nordjemenitischen Dialekte. Teil 1: Atlas in 1985, a lot of new field work has been done in North Yemen and adjacent areas with new data especially from the extreme north of Yemen and neighbouring areas in Saudi Arabia. These are considered to be the most archaic Arabic dialect areas. The publication of a new atlas of the region in English therefore suggested itself. The atlas consists of 192 fully coloured maps with 30 phonetical and phonological maps, 100 morphological and 60 lexical ones. Depending on the subject the maps are accompanied by shorter or longer commentaries and paradigms. The book is of interest to Arabists, Semitists and dialectologists.
Author / Editor information
Peter Behnstedt, (PhD, 1973, University of Tübingen, Dr. habil., 1997, University of Hamburg) has published monographs, dialect atlases and many articles on Arabic dialects of Yemen, Syria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Sudan. In collaboration with Manfred Woidich he co-authored the five volumes Die ägyptisch-arabischen Dialekte (Wiesbaden 1984–1999), Arabische Dialektgeographie (Brill,2005), and the three volumes of Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte,/i> (Brill, 2011–2014).
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eBook published on:
July 20, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9789004326422
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
484
Coloured Illustrations:
192
eBook ISBN:
9789004326422
Keywords for this book
Yemeni and Saudi Arabian Arabic; Arabic dialectology; dialect atlases; Saudi Arabian Arabic; dialectology; Yemen
Audience(s) for this book
All interested in Arabic dialectology, dialect geography in general, history of the Arabic language, Yemen studies.
