Leiden, Boston: Brill, 1982. — 576 p. — (Harvard Semitic Studies 25). The dialects of Old South Arabic remain a little-studied branch of the Semitic language family, despite the fact that thousands of texts In Sabaean, Minaean, Qatabanian and Hadramitic have been published, ranging in type from brief graffiti to substantial historical annals. The lack of attention heretofore...
Oxford University Press, 1981. — 382 p. — ISBN: 0-19-713602-8 This book arose out of my attempts to check the Jibbali material I had collected over a number of years, mainly outside Dhofar. It had become apparent to me, while working with 'Amir al-Qatn in Salalah, that the material I had was not on the most important dialect, namely that of the Central Jebel, and that my...
Oxon, Routledge, 2006. — 676 p. — ISBN: 0-7286-0137-0 Mehri is spoken by many thousands of speakers both in Dhofar, in the high desert plateau area called Nagd by Arabs and Mehris (and Fagr by Jibbalis), and in the adjacent area of South Yemen, as far to the south-west as Mukalla, the port on the Indian Ocean. In Mukalla itself the Mehris have lost their native language and...
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2013. — 409 р. — (Asian and African lexicon 55). A vocabulary of the Hobyot language spoken in Yemen. Includes example sentences and an English-Hobyot finderlist. Hobyót (also known as Hewbyót or Hobi) is an endangered Semitic language spoken in a small area of Oman and...
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