Description

Shown here is the third edition (October 1941) of South-West Arabia (The Yemen and the Aden Protectorate), a booklet issued by the British Colonial Office. First produced in 1933, the purpose of the pamphlet was to standardize the spelling of Arabic names among the various departments and offices of the Aden Protectorate. It is divided into two parts, with Part I covering “Proper and Tribal Names,” and Part II “Place Names.” A table at the beginning provides a key to the transliteration of Arabic alphabet into Latin script, which follows ...