A Dictionary of the Safaitic Inscriptions

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40041-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 98, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics

This is the first comprehensive dictionary of the Safaitic inscriptions, comprising more than 1400 lemmata and 1500 lexical items. The dictionary includes a lengthy introduction to the inscriptions as well an outline of various aspects of the Safaitic writing tradition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Al-Jallad, Ahmad

Jaworska, Karolina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Letter Order and Transcription Conventions
Abbreviations

Introduction
1 Overview of Safaitic
2 The Language of the Safaitic Inscriptions and Its Speakers
3 Writing System
4 Text Genres
5 Resources for the Study of Safaitic
6 The Safaitic Dictionary
7 The Entries

Sigla and Bibliography

Dictionary

Über Autor(innen)

Ahmad Al-Jallad, Ph.D. (2012), Harvard University, is the Sofia Chair of Arabic at The Ohio State University. He has published and edited several books and many articles on the inscriptions and writing cultures of Ancient Arabia as well as on the comparative grammar of the Semitic languages.

Karolina Jaworska, MA in Arabic studies (spec. Linguistics), Jagiellonian University (Poland), has worked on various projects related to security, water management, and economy in MENA region. She is currently working on the Hismaic inscriptions, focusing in particular on applying machine learning and big data solutions to linguistics.