This volume is the first comprehensive and systematic description of the dialect geography of the Arabic language which discusses on the basis of 112 maps topics such as types and interpretation of maps, areal norms and their significance for Arabic and the delimitation of dialect borders.

The Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte / Word Atlas of Arabic Dialects (WAD) intends to provide an unprecedented survey of the lexical richness and diversity of the Arabic dialects as spoken from Uzbekistan to Mauretania and Nigeria, from Malta to Sudan, and including the Ki-Nubi Creole as spoken in Uganda and Kenya. The multilingual word atlas will consist of four volumes in total with some 500 onomasiological maps in full colour. Each map presents a topic or notion and its equivalents in Arabic as collected from the dialectological literature (dictionaries, grammars, text collections,...

Die arabische Dialektologie kann in den deutschsprachigen Landern auf eine lange Tradition zuruckblicken, und so ist es wohl kein Zufall, dass diese erste zusammenfassende Darstellung der arabischen Dialekte uberwiegend von deutschen Fachgelehrten geschrieben worden ist. Das Handbuch verfolgt mehrere Ziele: Es soll den Stand der arabischen Dialektologie zu Beginn der 1980er-Jahre zusammenfassend darstellen und somit als Referenzwerk dienen, gleichzeitig aber auch als Hilfsmittel fur den fortgeschrittenen akademischen Unterricht verwendbar sein. Dem an diesen Forschungsgebiet interessierten...

Since the author's publication of Die nordjemenitischen Dialekte. Teil 1: Atlas in 1985, a lot of new field work has been done in North Yemen and adjacent areas with new data especially from the extreme north of Yemen and neighbouring areas in Saudi Arabia. These are considered to be the most archaic Arabic dialect areas. The publication of a new atlas of the region in English therefore suggested itself. The atlas consists of 192 fully coloured maps with 30 phonetical and phonological maps, 100 morphological and 60 lexical ones. Depending on the subject the maps are accompanied by...