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urn:uuid:1266d1e4-0cfb-41ae-a21a-6bb3d78826a1 03 01 01 urn:uuid:1266d1e4-0cfb-41ae-a21a-6bb3d78826a1 15 9781805113393 06 10.11647/OBP.0411 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 10 01 02 28 Semitic Languages and Cultures 01 01 Diversity across the Arabian Peninsula Language, Culture, Nature 1 B01 21 0000-0002-9196-8695 Fabio Gasparini 2 B01 21 0000-0002-0907-1580 Kamala Russell 3 B01 21 0000-0002-2922-2964 Janet C.E. Watson First edition. 01 eng 00 302 03 93 2CSR B2 Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 10 FOR002000 04 PJ7052 93 5PB-AA-A 10 HIS026010 B2 Linguistics 93 CFB B2 History 10 LAN009010 93 CFF 93 NHTB 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 20 00 Open Access Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers Cambridge, UK 04 01 20241017 2024 06 15 9781805113379 06 15 9781805113386 06 15 9781805113393 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0411 99 01 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0411.pdf 99 01