The Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics

by Jonathan Owens

Book Overview

Arabic is one of the world's largest languages, spoken natively by nearly 300 million people. By strength of numbers alone Arabic is one of our most important languages, studied by scholars across many different academic fields and cultural settings. It is, however, a complex language rooted in its own tradition of scholarship, constituted of varieties each imbued with unique cultural values and characteristic linguistic properties. Understanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190912804
• ISBN13: 9780190912802
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.5"