Jabal al-Lughat
Climbing the Mountain of Languages.
- By Lameen Souag
- Based in United States of America
- Roughly 11 posts per year
- First post on
Posts per year
| Year starting | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 6 |
| 2020 | 9 |
| 2021 | 10 |
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 14 |
| 2024 | 9 |
Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.
Most recent posts
In the mid-14th century work Bughyat al-ruwwād fī dhikr il-mulūk min banī ʕAbd al-Wād, Yaḥyā Ibn Khaldūn (brother of the more famous Ibn Khaldūn) ventures two possible etymologies for the name of Tlemcen (Standard Arabic …
Searching Shamela, I recently realised that the earliest references to a language of (al-)Barbar in Arabic go back further than I had assumed, to the second century AH. While these are unlikely to shed much …
When I wrote my paper on the Arabic dialect of Dellys a couple of decades ago, I described it as using the participle "going (to)" - ṛayəħ رايح (m.) / ṛayħa رايحة f. / ṛayħin …