Phonologies of Asia and Africa: Including the Caucasus (2 Volume Set)

This work has evolved over the course of the past few years and has involved the cooperation of 39 distinguished linguists. As such, uniformity in meth- odology and terminology has not been a desideratum, nor would it have been possible to attain. The achievements, nevertheless, have, in my opinion, proved to be remarkable. The goal of this publication is to provide a sum- mary of what is currently known about the phonology of selected Asian and African languages. In addition, three languages of the Caucasus are in- cluded. What I, as editor, have strived to do here is to give each author enough leeway to allow for the presentation of interesting facts in an infor- mative way, while paying strict attention to what is most significant about the language(s) under investigation. Of course, the readership will ultimately have to take it upon itself to decide the extent to which I have succeeded. I would like to express my sincere thanks to all the contributors for their efforts, and above all, for their extraordinary patience while the book was in production. These collaborative projects often take much more time to complete than was originally envisaged, as I found out once before with the two volumes containing approximately 1,800 pages by 134 scholars I edited in 1991: Semitic Studies in Honor of Wolf Leslau on the Occasion of His Eighty-Fifth Birthday . How to go to your Page 1 Volume 1 2 Front Cover 2 Title Page 5 Copyright Page 6 Contents 7 Preface 11 Introduction 13 Part 1: Afroasiatic Languages 21 Chapter 1: Akkadian and Amorite Phonology 23 Chapter 2: Eblaite Phonology 59 Chapter 3: Ugaritic Phonology 69 Chapter 4: Phoenician and Punic Phonology 75 Chapter 5: Ancient Hebrew Phonology 85 Chapter 6: Tiberian Hebrew Phonology 105 Chapter 7: Jewish Palestinian Aramaic Phonology 123 Chapter 8: Old Aramaic Phonology 135 Chapter 9: Classical Syriac Phonology 147 Chapter 10: Modern and Classical Mandaic Phonology 161 Chapter 11: Old South Arabian Phonology 181 Chapter 12: Ge‘ez Phonology 189 Chapter 13: Arabic Phonology 207 Chapter 14: Moroccan Arabic Phonology 225 Chapter 15: Cypriot Arabic Phonology 239 Chapter 16: Maltese Phonology 265 Chapter 17: Israeli Hebrew Phonology 307 Chapter 18: Modern Aramaic Phonology 333 Chapter 19: La phonologie des langues sudarabiques modernes 357 Chapter 20: Chaha (Gurage) Phonology 393 Chapter 21: Amharic Phonology 419 Chapter 22: Egyptian and Coptic Phonology 451 Chapter 23: Berber Phonology 481 Chapter 24: Awngi Phonology 497 Chapter 25: Oromo Phonology 513 Chapter 26: Somali Phonology 541 Chapter 27: Hausa Phonology 557 Volume 2 573 Front Cover 573 Title Page 576 Copyright Page 577 Contents 578 List of Maps 582 List of Tables 582 Part 2: Indo-European Languages 586 Chapter 28: Hittite Phonology 588 Chapter 29: Old Persian and Avestan Phonology 602 Chapter 30: Pahlavi Phonology 634 Chapter 31: Hindi-Urdu Phonology 670 Chapter 32: Gujarati Phonology 686 Chapter 33: Persian Phonology 708 Chapter 34: Kurdish Phonology 724 Chapter 35: Ossetic Phonology 740 Chapter 36: Pashto Phonology 766 Chapter 37: Balochi Phonology 794 Chapter 38: Armenian Phonology 810 Part 3: Dravidian Languages 828 Chapter 39: Brahui Phonology 830 Part 4: Nilo-Saharan Languages 846 Chapter 40: Nilo-Saharan Phonology 848 Part 5: Niger-Congo Languages 872 Chapter 41: Swahili Phonology 874 Chapter 42: Sango Phonology 894 Part 6: Altaic Languages 914 Chapter 43: Turkish Phonology 916 Chapter 44: Tatar (Volga Tatar, Kazan Tatar) Phonology 932 Chapter 45: Uyghur Phonology 946 Part 7: Caucasian Languages 960 Chapter 46: Georgian Phonology 962 Chapter 47: Chechen Phonology 974 Chapter 48: Lak Phonology 1006 Part 8: Unaffiliated Languages (Language Isolates) 1032 Chapter 49: Sumerian Phonology 1034 Chapter 50: Burushaski Phonology 1054 This large, 2-volume work presents more than 50 authoritative articles by leading specialists on a wide variety of ancient, medieval, and modern languages and dialects of the greater Near East and Africa, from a variety of language families. The articles are concise descriptive narratives presenting the basics of the phonology of the languages and dialects, with an emphasis on the phonological processes operative in them. A major goal of the work is a definite statement on the language and/or dialect in question with regard to genetics, typology, and/or universal elements. Of interest to general linguists as well as those specializing in Afro-Asiatic languages. V.1. -- V. 2. Edited By Alan S. Kaye ; Technical Advisor, Peter T. Daniels. Includes Bibliographical References.