Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte

Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte (SET)

Authors: Peter Behnstedt and Manfred Woidich

https://brill.com/view/package/9789004503946

“One of the most important milestones in the study of Arabic dialects. […] The result of this Herculean task is praisewothy indeed."

– Heikki Palva, in: Journal of Arabic Linguistics, 58 (2013)

Indispensable for everyone interested in the modern spoken Arabic language, as well as dialectologists and semanticists, the Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte provides 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 atlas consists of four volumes with some 500 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, ethnographic reports, etc.), from the editors’ own field work, from questionnaires filled out by native speakers or by experts for a certain dialect region, and also from the internet.