2021/10/20 by Ahmad Al‐Jallad · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis #Historical and Linguistic Studies #Archaeology and Historical Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.3390/languages6040173
openalex publication_date 2021/10/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
This paper investigates three linguistic features—wawation, the 1CS genitive clitic pronoun, and the relative pronoun—that are shared between the ancient epigraphic forms of Arabic and modern dialects, to the exclusion of Classical Arabic. I suggest that these features represent the earliest linguistic layer of the modern dialects.