The Spoken Language of the Rarh Region and Its Application in Literature

Բարբառագիտութիւնը եւ Անտիոքի շրջանի հայերէն խօսուածքները

The Armernians of Beylan, Svedia, Kesab, and Aramo-Ghnemiye in the historical Antioch region had their own vernacular and dialects. These have been studied, described and categorized by renowned linguists and dialectologists like Hrachya Adjarian, Ararad Gharibian, and Gevork Djahougian. In Djahugian's categorization,...

The Arabic Bible as an Evaluation Tool: The Case Study of the Khalīlī Arabic Dialect

Դարձեալ կ(ը) եղանակիչի մասին

Both Armenian and foreign linguists, including Fr. Arsen Aytinyan, Heinrich Peterman, losef Karst, Manuk Abeghyan, Grigor Ghapantsyan, Aarart Gharibyan, A. Marvalyan, Alexander Margaryan, and Gevorg Jahukyan have examined the etymology of the Armenian modal suffix կ(ը). The paper critically analyses the various views e...

Between East and West: The Ḥijāzī-Tamīmī Cleavage and Non-Uniformity of the Qur’anic Reading Traditions

Abstract The recitations of two of the eponymous Qur’an-masters, the Medinan Nāfiʿ and the Kufan Ḥamzah, are compared in light of prominent differences between the early Ḥijāzī and Tamīmī dialects. Although the qirāʾāt do not reflect pure dialects (as observed by Van Putten), nevertheless I find that local linguistic p...

Muškēnums in the Mari Texts: New Evidence

The article provides a survey of new attestations of the Akkadian word muškēnum (lit. ‘the one who bows down’) in the corpus of cuneiform texts from Mari archives (18th century B.C.). These attestations come from the epistolary documents edited or re-edited in 2013–2023. As the examined evidence shows, the word muškēnu...

A comparative analysis of the Norwegian language (Bokmål) and Latin American varieties of the Spanish language in the value aspect.

Aim. The purpose of the article is to identify the cultural identity and common ethnic values of the Norwegians, Mexican, Chileans, Venezuelans and Puerto-Ricans and to show how the implementation of these concepts determines the use of slang in the process of communication. Methodology. To solve the problem,...