Semitic Languages

John Huehnergard is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and former Professor of Semitic Philology at Harvard University.Na‘ama Pat-El is Associate Professor of Comparative Semitic Linguistics in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

• Introductory Chapters1. Introduction to the Semitic Languages: John Huehnergard & Na‘ama Pat-El2. Semitic and Afro-Asiatic: Gene Gragg3. Proto-Semitic: John Huehnergard4. The Semitic Language Family: A Typological Perspective: Na‘ama Pat-ElLanguage Chapters5. Akkadian: Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee6. Gǝʕǝz (Classical Ethiopic): Aaron Michael Butts7. Tigre of Gindaʕ: David L. Elias8. Tigrinya: Maria Bulakh9. Amharic: Lutz Edzard10. Gurage (Muher): Ronny Meyer11. Mehri: Aaron D. Rubin12. Soqotri: Leonid Kogan and Maria Bulakh13. Ancient South Arabian: Anne Multhoff14. Safaitic: Ahmad Al-Jallad15. Classical Arabic: Daniel Birnstiel16. Levantine Arabic: Kristen Brustad and Emilie Zuniga17. Egyptian Arabic: Thomas Leddy-Cecere and Jason Schroepfer18. Moroccan Arabic: Mike Turner19. Ugaritic: Josef Tropper and Juan-Pablo Vita20. The Canaanite Languages: Aren M. Wilson-Wright21. Pre-modern Hebrew: Biblical Hebrew: Aaron D. Hornkohl22. Modern Hebrew: Philip Zhakevich and Benjamin Kantor23. Samaritan Aramaic: Christian Stadel24. Modern Western Aramaic: Steven E. Fassberg25. Syriac: Na‘ama Pat-El26. Mandaic: C. G. Häberl27. Northeastern Neo-Aramaic: the Dialect of Alqosh: Eleanor Coghill

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