International audienceThe few surviving pre-Islamic inscriptions in both the Arabic language and the Arabic script show the absence of a standard written language. We will take as a sample of variation the inscriptions of Jabal Usays (AD 528-529) and Harrân (AD 568). A meticulous examination of the first inscription suggests that its author, a soldier, writes the way he speaks in a case-less variety of Arabic. In this context, I will examine the famous bilingual Greek-Arabic papyrus PERF 558 (22/643), in which the name Ibn Abû Qîr occurs twice. The Arabic Abû Qîr is the Greek Apa Kyros. In order to get to the form Abû Qîr, one has to go througth the form *Abâ Qîr, reinterpreted as the accusative of the three-case (triptotic) inflection Abû/...
Although the Arabic grammatical tradition never acknowledged its historicity, it nevertheless gather...
Although the Arabic grammatical tradition never acknowledged its historicity, it nevertheless gather...
In the pre-Islamic period, Arabic had a wide range of expressive terms referring to the different «w...
International audienceThe few surviving pre-Islamic inscriptions in both the Arabic language and the...
International audienceThe few surviving pre-Islamic inscriptions in both the Arabic language and the...
The study of variation in Arabic vernaculars has come a long way since itsbeginnings as a misguided ...
The study of variation in Arabic vernaculars has come a long way since itsbeginnings as a misguided ...
The study of variation in Arabic vernaculars has come a long way since itsbeginnings as a misguided ...
Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the formal language of writing, which comprises books, newspapers, m...
International audienceThe present paper discusses from a diachronic standpoint the realizations of ǧ...
International audienceThe present paper discusses from a diachronic standpoint the realizations of ǧ...
This thesis investigates the transition of the Arabic script from written to printed form and the in...
ABSTRACT: Arab linguists offer a specific concept of classical Arabic (ALFUSSHA), as they have made ...
The highly archaic Classical Arabic language and its modern iteration Modern Standard Arabic must to...
In the pre-Islamic period, Arabic had a wide range of expressive terms referring to the different «w...
Although the Arabic grammatical tradition never acknowledged its historicity, it nevertheless gather...
Although the Arabic grammatical tradition never acknowledged its historicity, it nevertheless gather...
In the pre-Islamic period, Arabic had a wide range of expressive terms referring to the different «w...
International audienceThe few surviving pre-Islamic inscriptions in both the Arabic language and the...
International audienceThe few surviving pre-Islamic inscriptions in both the Arabic language and the...
The study of variation in Arabic vernaculars has come a long way since itsbeginnings as a misguided ...
The study of variation in Arabic vernaculars has come a long way since itsbeginnings as a misguided ...
The study of variation in Arabic vernaculars has come a long way since itsbeginnings as a misguided ...
Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the formal language of writing, which comprises books, newspapers, m...
International audienceThe present paper discusses from a diachronic standpoint the realizations of ǧ...
International audienceThe present paper discusses from a diachronic standpoint the realizations of ǧ...
This thesis investigates the transition of the Arabic script from written to printed form and the in...
ABSTRACT: Arab linguists offer a specific concept of classical Arabic (ALFUSSHA), as they have made ...
The highly archaic Classical Arabic language and its modern iteration Modern Standard Arabic must to...
In the pre-Islamic period, Arabic had a wide range of expressive terms referring to the different «w...
Although the Arabic grammatical tradition never acknowledged its historicity, it nevertheless gather...
Although the Arabic grammatical tradition never acknowledged its historicity, it nevertheless gather...
In the pre-Islamic period, Arabic had a wide range of expressive terms referring to the different «w...