A Judaeo-Arabic Biblical Glossary as a Source for Arabic Historical Dialectology
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Posegay, Nick https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1336-9520
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jats:pMS T-S Ar.5.58 is a translation glossary from the Cairo Geniza that contains a list of Judaeo-Arabic glosses for Hebrew words from the biblical book of Samuel. These Arabic words are fully vocalised with the Tiberian Hebrew pointing system, providing more precise phonetic information about the scribe’s native Arabic dialect than could be expressed with standard Arabic vowel signs. This pointing reveals linguistic features known from modern varieties of vernacular Arabic, including a conditional tendency to raise /a/ to /e/ and a reflex of ǧīm as /g/. The manuscript can be dated between the tenth and twelfth centuries, making it an important source for the history of spoken medieval Arabic and Middle Arabic writing.</jats:p>
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47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4703 Language Studies, 4704 Linguistics, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies
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Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
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0806-198X
0806-198X
0806-198X
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20
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University of Oslo Library
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