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An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions
Abstract
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.
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“Except for a few possible exceptions, the pre-Islamic Arabic varieties written in Safaitic, for example, do not attest tanwīn (Al-Jallad 2015: §4.6).”
From Fresh Analysis of the Origin and Diachronic Development of “Dialectal Tanwīn” in Arabic (2021) · cites this paper as Al-Jallad 2015: §4.6
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“Evidence from pre-Islamic Arabic sources, especially the Safaitic and Nabataean corpora, provides non-Classical confirmation of this distribution (see Al-Jallad 2015: 66).”
From gahwat al-murra: the N + DEF-ADJ syntagm and the *at>ah shift in Arabic (2020) · cites this paper as Al-Jallad 2015
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“The context of the attestations in H 408 (regarding the building of an iwan by a tribal group) points to a hypoc. like Saf. ʿ q (HIn., 426 ̒ disobedient'; WH, 595; Ababneh 2005 nos. 475, 506, 1041 ̒ coward; stingy'), attested also in the form ʿqy (al-Manaser 2008 no. 316); they may be related to Saf. ʿwq ʻ(D) to be imprisoned' (Al-Jallad 2015, 305).”
From Personal Names in the Aramaic Inscriptions of Hatra (2018) · cites this paper as Al-Jallad 2015, 305
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“Since Saf. <s2> very likely expresses a lateral phoneme (Al-Jallad 2015, 45, 2017, 138)”
From Personal Names in the Aramaic Inscriptions of Hatra (2018) · cites this paper as Al-Jallad 2015, 45, 2017, 138
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Personal Names in the Aramaic Inscriptions of Hatra
Marcato, E. (2018) · Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia · doi:10.14277/978-88-6969-231-4 · Cited by 25
Al-Jallad, A. (2017) · Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies · doi:10.1017/s0041977x17000878 · Cited by 11
Self-citationFresh Analysis of the Origin and Diachronic Development of “Dialectal Tanwīn” in Arabic
Stokes, P. W. (2021) · Journal of the American Oriental Society · doi:10.7817/jameroriesoci.140.3.0637 · Cited by 5
Dadanitic b-rʾy as referring to a local calendar?
Kootstra, F. (2020) · Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies · doi:10.1017/s0041977x20000038 · Cited by 2
“2013: 173), in which sense it is also used here and in Al-Jallad’s (2016) article.”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialgahwat al-murra: the N + DEF-ADJ syntagm and the *at>ah shift in Arabic
Stokes, P. W. (2020) · Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies · doi:10.1017/s0041977x19001125 · Cited by 1
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- Authors
- Al-Jallad, A.
- Venue
- BRILL eBooks
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Published
- 2015-03-20
- OpenAlex
- W931019807
- Cited by
- 156
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 37 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 40 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 13.80
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- BRILL eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Keywords
- Safaitic inscriptions, Semitic grammar, phonology, morphology (linguistics), syntax, orthography, annotated dictionary
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