An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions

Reviews / Votes

Let it be said from the start that this is a first-class study which places firmly on the map a language which is of huge importance in the context of the history of the Arabic language and, more generally, of Arabian epigraphy and Semitic linguistics. - G. Rex Smith, University of Leeds.

Grace a Ahmad al-Jallad, les specialistes de grammaire semitique comparee ont desormais un acces simplifie a ce formidable corpus, qui ressuscite tout un pan de l'histoire de la langue arabe et, par la meme, de l'histoire des peuples arabes preislamiques. - Jonas Sibony.

This well-researched and structured book will be of interest to Semitists, who will find invaluable parallels and ideas, while comparatists will now have a reliable reference work with dozens of glossed examples when they construct linguistic models based on a large sample of world languages. - Naim Vanthieghem - Princeton University.