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Marijn "i before j" van Putten
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As promised, here's a follow up to my series of ongoing comparisons between Nabataean Arabic and Old Hijazi. This time we will look at the Deictic system within the Arabic
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Berber and Semitic share many morphological and phonological similarities. Those similarities make me feel pretty good about reconstructing Proto-Afro-Asiatic (or at least Proto-Berber-Semitic). But good lexical matches are few and
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In vocalized Kufic Qurans, as a rule only 3 things are consistently marked: hamzah, final short vowels, and ʾiʿrāb. Tanwīn is marked by writing the ʾiʿrāb twice. Occasionally the indefinite
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One of the interesting, but seldom described features of Classical Arabic (i.e. "that which the grammarians describe") is the presence of a front rounded vowel ǖ [yː]. This is said
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In the new volume by Segovia, there's an article that makes me feel like we have stepped into a time machine, all progress of the past decades is ignored. Emilio
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A lot of time gets wasted on the polemics of the stability of transmission of the Hebrew Bible and the Quran. Instead of arguing without evidence let's compare a section
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One of the features of the Quran is that certain words with no obvious rhyme or reason will occur in two different pronunciations even when the formula is essentially identical
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The Arab grammarians describe the occurrence of /ē/ (called ʾimālah) in word-final position of verbs and nouns, e.g. banē "he built" and ḥublē "pregnant". This thread discusses the disagreements between
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One of the big mysteries of the Quranic reading traditions, to me, is the when and why of the many many irregularities that occur in them. Most readers follow a
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The consonantal dotting of the Arabic script is something about which quite a bit of confusion exists, from its origins, application in manuscripts, quranic or otherwise and finally anachronistic imposition
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A thread on hamzah spellings. This is a topic where I see there is a lot of confusion because people project modern spelling conventions onto the pre-modern period and then
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