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Soqotri Texts in the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. An Annotated Edition
13 poetic fragments in the Modern South Arabian language Soqotri (the island of Soqotra, Gulf of Aden, Yemen), recorded phonographically at the beginning of the 20th century by the Austrian orientalist David Heinrich Mueller, are presented in phonological transcription and English translation. Each fragment is extensively annotated with the help of native speakers of modern Soqotri. A detailed glossary (Soqotri-English-Arabic) comprising all words from texts and annotations rounds up the book.
In this book all the South Arabian inscriptions discovered in the region of Nihm (North-Eastern Yemen) in the 60-70-ies of the 20th century by the Russian Arabist Piotr Gryaznevich and his French colleague Christian Julien Robin are edited with their translation into French and commentary. Besides that, special chapetrs were composed on the exploration of Nihm, the palaeography of those inscriptions dated from the 7th century BC to the 6th century AD, their linguistical peculiarities, the onomasticon attested in them and the religious beliefs of tehir authors are included in the volume. The photographs of the inscriptions are published in a separate volume.
The volume contains twenty individual case studies on Semitic language contact. The languages treated span from ancient Semitic languages, such as Akkadian, Aramaic, Classical Ethiopic, Hebrew, Phoenician, and Ugaritic, to modern ones, including languages/dialects belonging to the Modern Arabic, Modern South Arabian, Neo-Aramaic, and Neo-Ehtiopian branches of the Semitic family.
13 poetic fragments in the Modern South Arabian language Soqotri (the island of Soqotra, Gulf of Aden, Yemen), recorded phonographically at the beginning of the 20th century by the Austrian orientalist David Heinrich Mueller, are presented in phonological transcription and English translation. Each fragment is extensively annotated with the help of native speakers of modern Soqotri. A detailed glossary (Soqotri-English-Arabic) comprising all words from texts and annotations rounds up the book