Description

Études sur les dialectes de l'Arabie méridionale (Studies of the dialects of South Arabia) is a monumental study of the dialects of the Hadramawt and Datinah regions of the southern Arabian Peninsula, located northeast of the city of Aden (present-day Yemen). It was produced by the Swedish Orientalist Count Carlo Landberg (1848‒1924), who is considered one of the leading Swedish Orientalists of all time. The work consists of four volumes of painstakingly transcribed recitations of poems, songs, and stories collected from the tribes. The author provides the Arabic ...