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A comparative glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic-English) : with an introductory essay / by Alexander Borg.
Van Pelt Library PJ6901.C9 B67 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Borg, Alexander.
- Series:
- Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; Erste Abteilung, 70 Bd.
- Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, Near and Middle East ; v. 70 = Handbuch der Orientalistik
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arabic language--Dialects--Cyprus--Kormakiti--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Arabic language.
- Arabic language--Dialects--English--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Maronites--Cyprus--Language.
- Maronites.
- Arabic language--Dialects.
- Cyprus.
- Cyprus--Kormakiti.
- Genre:
- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Controlled vocabularies.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 486 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
- Summary:
- Cypriot Arabic, is an unwritten language and mother tongue of several hundred bilingual (Arabic/Greek) Maronites from Kormakiti (N.W. Cyprus). In this book many Cypriot Arabic terms are cited with illustrative examples and ethnographic commentary where relevant. It is primarily intended for orientalists and linguists specializing in comparative Semitics and Arabic dialectology.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [89]-132) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9004131981
- OCLC:
- 51944499
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