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urn:uuid:1266d1e4-0cfb-41ae-a21a-6bb3d78826a1 03 15 9781805113393 00 EB E107 10 10 02 26326914 01 02 Semitic Languages and Cultures 01 01 Diversity across the Arabian Peninsula Language, Culture, Nature 1 B01 Fabio Gasparini Fabio Gasparini received his PhD in African, Asian, and Mediterranean Studies from the University of Naples “L’Orientale.” He currently holds a postdoc position at the Free University of Berlin. Together with Miranda J. Morris, he is author of the first descriptive grammar of Bəṭaḥrēt. His research focuses on the Modern South Arabian languages and Semitic in general from a comparative and typological perspective and on the relationship between language, identity and landscape. 2 B01 Kamala Russell Kamala Russell is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2021. Her research investigates the relationships between everyday interaction, space and infrastructure, and Islamic ethics through fieldwork projects with speakers of Shehret Modern South Arabian. 3 B01 Janet C.E. Watson Janet Watson studied at the University of Exeter and at SOAS, London. She has worked at the Universities of Edinburgh, Durham, and Salford and has held visiting posts at the Universi ties of Heidelberg (2003–2004) and Oslo (2004–2005). She took up the Leadership Chair for Language at Leeds at the University of Leeds in 2013, and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2013. Since 2019, she has directed the Centre for Endangered Languages, Cultures and Ecosystems (CELCE). She is currently an Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews and a Visiting Professor at Sultan Qaboos University. Her current research areas are on Modern South Arabian and the language–nature relationship. 01 eng 00 302 03 23 Arabian Peninsula 23 Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 10 FOR002000 04 PJ7052 23 Diversity 10 HIS026010 23 Linguistics 23 History 10 LAN009010 23 Linguistic endangerment 23 Cultural studies 23 Interdisciplinary approaches 23 Community-based collaboration 01 06 03 00 This edited volume brings together a diverse and rich set of contributions on the Arabian Peninsula. Ranging from history, field linguistics, and cultural studies these essays address the diversity of languages, ways of life, and natural environments that have marked the region throughout its history. The book stems from the intellectual exchange and collaboration fostered by a virtual workshop that met regularly in 2020-21 and which drew participants from within and beyond the academy. The contributions gathered in this volume highlight the need for a better understanding of a region that hosts a vast amount of culturally and linguistically diverse material, often in a precarious state of conservation. Diversity Across the Arabian Peninsula argues for the importance of holistic, community-based, and interdisciplinary approaches to linguistic endangerment and deep social and cultural changes: there is no documentation of language without attention to language use, the material lifeworld and its ecology, and social and cultural setting. Such research is enriched and made more impactful through collaboration with communities and scholars from the Global South. The essays in this volume thus spearhead a contextualized study of South Arabian linguistic varieties and their connection with the natural and cultural world they inhabit. 04 00 Contributors Preface The Dhaid Oasis: Onomastic Investigations in Northern Emirati Villages An Ecolinguistic Approach to Kumzari: Ecocultural Assemblages of Language and Landscape in Kumzar Three Shehret Texts: Building with Flora Aspects of the Phonology and Morphology of Saudi Varieties of Arabic Distal and Proximal Relative Pronouns in Central Faifi Arabic Verbal Noun Formation in Mehri Technological Support for Endangered/Minority Languages: Creating Cross-Platform Keyboard Layouts for Modern South Arabian Languages Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 04 01 20241017 02 WORLD 06 15 9781805113379 06 15 9781805113386 06 15 9781805113393 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 20 01