Copyright

Geoffrey Khan

Published On

2024-05-06

Page Range

pp. 277–284

Language

  • English

Print Length

8 pages

13. Language

Chapter of: Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia(pp. 277–284)
The Arabic language of the documents occasionally exhibits deviations from Classical Arabic usage, often due to interference from the spoken vernacular language.

Contributors

Geoffrey Khan

(author)
Regius Professor of Hebrew at University of Cambridge

Geoffrey Khan (PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1984) is Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge. His research publications focus on three main fields: Biblical Hebrew language (especially medieval traditions), Neo-Aramaic dialectology, and medieval Arabic documents. He is the general editor of The Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics (Brill, 2013) and is the senior editor of Journal of Semitic Studies. His recent publications include The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Cambridge: University of Cambridge & Open Book Publishers, 2020, Performance of Sacred Semitic Texts (editor, with co-editor Hindy Najman), Dead Sea Discoveries 29, Brill. 2022, and Language Contact in Sanandaj (co-authored with Masoud Mohammadirad), Berlin, de Gruyter, 2024.