Oxford University Press, 1977.— xxix, 181 p. — (School of Oriental and African Studies). Ḥarsūsi is spoken by a limited number of people who live to the north of the Dhofar province of Oman. Although it is closely related to Mehri, it appears likely that the Harasis are of non-Mehri origin and that they adopted the language of their powerful neighbours many generations ago....
М.: Издательская фирма Восточная литература РАН, 1996. — 190 с. В монографии исследуется неизвестный до настоящего времени химьяритский язык, распространенный на территории Южной Аравии в доисламский период. Этот язык существовал в устной форме, его письменная фиксация обнаружена в раннесредневековых арабских источниках. На основании этих свидетельств автор реконструирует...
М.: Издательская фирма Восточная литература РАН, 1996. — 190 с. В монографии исследуется неизвестный до настоящего времени химьяритский язык, распространенный на территории Южной Аравии в доисламский период. Этот язык существовал в устной форме, его письменная фиксация обнаружена в раннесредневековых арабских источниках. На основании этих свидетельств автор реконструирует...
Brill, 2024. — xvi, 242 p. — (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 113). This book presents the results of a field research on the verbal system of Soqotri, a little-studied language spoken on the island of Soqotra (Arabian Sea) and belonging to the Modern South Arabian branch of Semitic. The investigation focuses on the so-called T-stems (marked by the infix -t-),...
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2015. — 42 p. — (Quaderni di Arabia antica 2). Description: Introduction Ancient South Arabian within Semitic Nebes and archaeology Nebes's linguistic hypothesis Stein's hypothesis on a relationship between Sabaic and Aramaic Excursus on the prefixed verbal forms in Early Sabaic and in Qatabanic Early Sabaic prefixed verbal forms Qatabanic prefixed...
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2013. — 407 p. — (Arabia Antica — Archaeological and Philological Series 8). Virtually every city and often even the smallest villages of Yemen have museums where hundreds of antiquities - inscriptions and artefacts - are housed, collections that bear witness to the culture that flourished in southern Arabia between the end of the 2nd millennium BC and...
Undena Publications, 1975. — 36 p. — (Monographic journals of the Near East: Afroasiatic linguistics 1.5). This is a comparative and descriptive survey of the modem South Arabian languages, Mehri, Harsusi, Sheri and Socotri. After a presentation of the speakers, the consonantal system is analysed with special attention to glottalized consonants, the laterals, palatalization,...
Brill Academic Pub, 2021. — Vol. 1: xx, 544 p.; Vol. 2: xii, 1018 p.; Vol. 3: xii, 878 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1. The Near and Middle East 151). In the bilingual English-Arabic work, The Oral Art of Soqoṭra: A Collection of Island Voices, Miranda Morris and Ṭānuf Sālim Di-Kisin, in collaboration with Soqoṭrans from all parts of the island, present over a...
C. Klincksieck, 1938. — 501 p. — (Collection Linguistique XLI). Ce lexique a été établi principalement d'après les textes publiés par D. H. Mûller ; son intérêt est dans les comparaisons établies par M. Leslau, car les langues sudarabiques, surtout les langues parlées, sont indépendantes de l'arabe. En particulier, « le lexique soqotri nous révèle de nombreux éléments communs...
University of Texas – Austin, 2019. — 108 p. Harsusi is one of the five Modern South Arabian (MSA) languages spoken in the Sultanate of Oman. It is one of the least studied and known about languages in this group of Semitic languages. It is considered as a shifting language by the Ethnologue (Simons, G. F. & Charles, D. F., 2018) with around 6000 speakers. Being spoken in the...
Brill, 2015. — xviii, 750 p. — (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume: 76). For the first time after D. H. Müller’s pioneering studies of the 1900s, a large body of folklore texts in Soqotri becomes available to the Semitological scholarship. The language is spoken by ca. 100.000 people inhabiting the island Soqotra (Gulf of Aden, Yemen). Soqotri is among the...
Brill, 2018. — xvi, 738 p. — (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume: 95). Four years after the publication of the Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume I (Brill, 2014), this volume present the second installment of the Corpus. Inspired by D.H. Müller’s pioneering studies of the 1900s, the authors publish a large body of folklore and ethnographic texts in...
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...
London: Luzac & Co. Ltd, 1962. — VII, 80 p. The present work is an attempt to present systematically the grammar of these texts, as it appears on the basis of our present knowledge. It is formulated strictly in terms of a descriptive account and (except in one or two instances) I have avoided comparisons with other Semitic languages. A purely descriptive account of this kind is...
М.: Наука, 1966. — 120 с. — (Языки народов Азии и Африки). Южноаравийский язык — ныне мёртвый язык семитской ветви, на котором говорили и писали народности юго-западной и южной части Аравийского полуострова.
Brill, 2018. — 898 p. — (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 93). This book contains a comprehensive grammatical description of Mehri, an unwritten Semitic language spoken in the Dhofar region of Oman, along with a corpus of more than one hundred texts. Topics in phonology, all aspects of morphology, and a variety of syntactic features are covered. The texts, presented...
University of Leeds (School of Languages Cultures & Societies), 2018. — 476 p. This thesis discusses a number of open questions and explores various understudied and unstudied aspects of Modern South Arabian (MSA) linguistics and MSA studies at large. Namely, it contains an extensive literature review which offers a summary of the most significant works in the field, a discussion...
Roma : Editrice Pontificio Instituto Biblico, 1989. — xii, 241 p. Qatabānian (or Qatabānic), one of the four better-documented languages of the Old South Arabian (or "Ṣayhadic") sub-group of South Semitic, was spoken mainly but not exclusively in the kingdom of Qatabān, located in central Yemen. The language is attested between 500 BC and 200 AD. Some two thousand inscriptions...
Journal of Semitic Studies LIX/1, 2014. — 30 The authors investigate the transmission history of two remarkable poetic compositions in the Modern South Arabian language Soqotri (the island Soqotra, Yemen). First published by D.H. Müller in the beginning of the twentieth century, they were recorded and studied anew by Naumkin more than seventy years later and then jointly by the...
Grand Forks, 2010. — 154 In this thesis I present a typological analysis of the Modern South Arabian Languages. Typological research is often based on a six-way typology of dominant word order based on clauses containing nominal subjects, objects and verbs. However, this clause type is extremely rare in this language group, making typological analysis based on a six-way typology...