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A Dictionary of the Safaitic Inscriptions

A Dictionary of the Safaitic Inscriptions

Author: Ahmad Al-Jallad Karolina Jaworska
Publisher: Brill
Publication Date: 22 Aug 2019
ISBN-13: 9789004400412
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Description


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.


Table of Contents


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


Author Description


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.






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