The evolution of Arabic(s)
Making the Idiom speak for the Deme
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2640917 |
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| Authors | Mahé Ben Hamed (0000-0002-5486-6788, Bases, Corpus, Langage, corresponding author), Melissa Barkat-Defradas (0000-0002-9491-5695, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier), Rim Hamdi-Sultan (Savoirs, Textes, Langage) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 94 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-09 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Modern Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1737-7374 • E-ISSN: 1737-8176 |
| Publisher | African Journals Online (AJOL) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4314/ijma.v1i8.5 |
| OpenAlex | W2195196418 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Despite its rather shallow origin, Arabic forms the largest group of extant Semitic languages and one of the most geographically widespread languages of the world. The current distribution of its linguistic variants is the product of a phylogeography of the populations that spoke them, and Arabic dialects have captured in their words and structures traces of their speakers demic history. In this paper, we show how a phylolinguistic approach can identify such traces and make sense of them in terms of population contacts and migration, and discuss how its findings fit with the cumulative knowledge of the history and genetics of arabic-speaking populations.Keywords : Phylo-linguistics, cultural evolution, modern synthesis, Arabic dialects, Afro-Asiatic, phylogenetic networksetic networks
Arabic · Biology · Evolutionary biology · Extant taxon · Linguistics · Phylogenetic tree · Phylogeography · Population · Semitic languages · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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