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The Writing Culture of Ancient Dadān = A Description and Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Variation

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This work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia in the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-ʿUlā in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula between the sixth to first centuries BC. It offers a description and analysis of the language of the inscriptions and the variation attested within them. It is the first work to perform a systematic study of the linguistic variation of the Dadanitic inscriptions. It combines a thorough description of the language of the inscriptions with a statistical analysis of the distribution of variation across different textual genres and manners of inscribing. By considering correlations between language-internal and extralinguistic features this analysis aims to take a more holistic approach to the epigraphic object. Through this approach an image of a rich writing culture emerges, in which we can see innovation as well as the deliberate use of archaic linguistic features in more formal text types.

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Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume: 110

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: Brill., 2022

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342hlm; ill., lamp.,

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English

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9789004512634

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computer

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online resource

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Palaeography (history of writing)

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Fokelien Kootstra

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https://brill.com/display/title/62065

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