This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the dialects of Old Arabic attested in the Safaitic script, an Ancient North Arabian alphabet used mainly in the deserts of southern Syria and north-eastern Jordan in the pre-Islamic period. It is the first complete grammar of any Ancient North Arabian corpus, making it an important contribution to the fields of Arabic and Semitic studies. The volume covers topics in script and orthography, phonology, morphology, and syntax, and contains an appendix of over 500 inscriptions and an annotated dictionary. The grammar is based on a corpus of 33,000 Safaitic inscriptions.
- ISBN10 9004513698
- ISBN13 9789004513693
- Publish Date 19 May 2022
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country NL
- Imprint Brill
- Edition 2nd New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 385
- Language English
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