35.1462, Books: Communal Dialects in Baghdad: Blanc (2024)

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Date: 08-May-2024
From: Simone Luijks [simone.luijks at brill.com]
Subject: Communal Dialects in Baghdad: Blanc (2024)


Title: Communal Dialects in Baghdad
Series Title: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Brill
                http://www.brill.com
Book URL: https://brill.com/display/title/64582

Author: Haim Blanc
Editor: David Blanc
Editor: Alexander Borg
Hardback: ISBN: 9789004689794 Pages: 230 Price: U.S. $ 115
Hardback: ISBN: 9789004689794 Pages: 230 Price: Europe EURO 99
eBook: ISBN: 9789004689886 Pages: 230 Price: U.S. $ 115
eBook: ISBN: 9789004689886 Pages: 230 Price: Europe EURO 99
Abstract:

Haim Blanc’s Communal Dialects in Baghdad is one of the most
influential works ever written on the on the linguistic diachrony of
vernacular Arabic. Based on original fieldwork conducted during the
years 1957–1962, this book portaits the extensive regional continuum
of modern spoken Arabic stretching across parts of Mesopotamia and N.
Syria, evinced by the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian speech communities
in Baghdad.

Typos and other mistakes have been corrected in this reprint, which is
accompanied by an Editorial Preamble by Alexander Borg and a Foreword
by Paul Wexler, and contains references to the original page numbers.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Mesopotamian (acm)

Language Family(ies): Arabic based
                      Semitic

Written In: English (eng)



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