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Hulton's Jibbali word-list from 1836

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2014

Aaron D. Rubin
Aaron D. Rubin*
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Pennsylvania State University
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arubin@psu.edu
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Abstract

In 1836, a British naval surgeon named J.G. Hulton collected lexical data on the Jibbali language spoken on the Omani island of Al-Ḥallaniya (Khuriya Muriya). This is the earliest Jibbali data known to have been collected by a European, and remains today the only published data on the dialect of that island. Wolf Leslau analysed this data (BSOAS XII, 1947, pp. 5–19) but Hulton's valuable material can now be reconsidered thanks to recent advances in our understanding of Jibbali and the other Modern South Arabian languages.

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JibbaliShahriMehriSoqoṭriOmanModern South ArabianSemiticArabic
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 77 , Issue 3 , October 2014 , pp. 467 - 485
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Copyright © SOAS, University of London 2014 

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