Atlas of the Arabic Dialects of Galilee (Israel) (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East)

By Peter Behnstedt

This atlas is based on large-scale fieldwork conducted in Galilee in the mid-nineties of last century. Galilee is the area with the highest percentage of arabophones in Israel and displays a rather complex dialectal situation. The reshuffling of large parts of the population after 1948 led to a considerable degree of dialectal diversity in many places. Moreover, many points of investigation show, besides the notorious Bedouin-sedentary dichotomy, a significant sociolinguistic variation with respect to age, sex, and denomination.The atlas contains seventy-three phonetic and phonologial maps, in addition to eighty morphological and thirty-eight lexical maps.Ten maps deal with the classification of the dialects.The atlas is of interest to semitists, dialectologists and variationists.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900441066X
• ISBN13: 9789004410664
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 480 Pages