Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Dialects—Iraq—Baghdad [Browse]

Editor

• Blanc, David [Browse]
• Borg, Alexander [Browse]

Series

• Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 111. [More in this series]
• Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 0081-8461 ; volume 111 [More in this series]

Summary note

"Haim Blanc's Communal Dialects in Baghdad is one of the most influential works ever written on the on the linguistic diachrony of vernacular Arabic. Based on original fieldwork conducted during the years 1957-1962, this book portaits the extensive regional continuum of modern spoken Arabic stretching across parts of Mesopotamia and N. Syria, evinced by the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian speech communities in Baghdad. Typos and other mistakes have been corrected in this reprint, which is accompanied by an Editorial Preamble by Alexander Borg and a Foreword by Paul Wexler, and contains references to the original page numbers"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-165) and index.

Other editions

Reproduction of (manifestation): Blanc, Haim. Communal dialects in Baghdad Cambridge : Distributed for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University by Harvard University Press, 1964 ix, 204 p., map, 21 cm.

ISBN

• 9004689796
• 9789004689794 ((hardback ; : acid-free paper))

OCLC

1409397845

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