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📚 Explore the linguistic treasure trove of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ́t. Giuliano Castagna delves into this endangered language, preserving its rich #proverbs and #idioms for future generations.
This book explores the rich paremiological heritage of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ̄́t, an endangered pre-literate language belonging to the Modern #SouthArabian sub-branch of #Semitic, spoken by an ever-decreasing number of people in the #Dhofar governorate of the Sultanate of Oman.
Reflecting the historical value of #proverbs and #idiomatic expression within the documentation of a language, Giuliano Castagna analyses a sizeable share of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ̄́t #proverbs, sayings and idioms from #Arabic-language publications, as well as hitherto unpublished expressions that reveal undocumented features in the domains of #lexicon, #phonetics, #phonology and #morphology.
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An Annotated Corpus of Three Hundred Proverbs, Sayings, and Idioms in Eastern Jibbali/Śḥərɛ́t
This book explores the rich paremiological heritage of Jibbali/Śḥərɛ̄́t, an endangered pre-literate language belonging to the Modern South Arabian sub-branch of Semitic, spoken by an ever-decreasing number of people in the Dhofar governorate of the Sultanate of Oman.
The Dead And The Decaying
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