What is Ancient North Arabian?
- Title
- What is Ancient North Arabian?
- Creator(s)
- al-Jallad, Ahmad
- Editor(s)
- Birnstiel, Daniel
- Pat-El, Na‘ama
- Date
- 2018
- Is Part Of
- Re- engaging Comparative Semitic and Arabic Studies
- Number
- 115
- In Series
- Abhandlunden für die Kunde des Morgenlandes Band
- Pages
- 1-43
- Language
- eng
- Publisher
- Harrassowitz Verlag
- Place Published
- Wiesbaden
- Abstract
- The biggest barrier to understanding the linguistic diversity of pre–Islamic Arabia has traditionally been the dearth of sources. Scholars had only the fragmentary accounts of medieval Muslim scholars to rely upon. These presented the Arabian Peninsula as more or less linguistically homogenous – Arabic was spoken across its vast territory, with the exception of the southwestern corner where Ḥimyaritic still held sway. And even the few surviving remarks about Ḥimyaritic made it seem like an exotic Arabic dialect rather than an independent language.
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