This volume is the result of collaborative work conducted with a number of native speakers of the languages over several years. The volume presents a comparative cultural glossary of 345 head terms, which are given in the six Modern South Arabian languages: Group I: Mehri, Harsusi and Bathari; Group II: Sheret, Sokotri and Hobyot. The groupings are linguistically rather than geographically based. The list adapts and expands Claire Bowern's basic word list of 224 terms (Bowern 2008). Our word list was developed by the Documentation and Ethnolinguistic Analysis of Modern South Arabian (DEAMSA)...
This volume is the result of collaborative work conducted with a number of native speakers of the languages over several years. The volume presents a ...