Manoubi, Ali
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"Hobyot, a Semitic language of the Modern South Arabian group, is spoken by a few thousand speakers in eastern Yemen and southern Oman. With no writte
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n tradition and facing imminent extinction, it remains one of the least documented languages in the region. This study offers the first comprehensive linguistic description of Hobyot, based on dedicated field research. The phonological system is analysed in depth, providing the foundation for a precise transcription. Morphology, particularly the verbal system, has been thoroughly elicited from native speakers. The study also explores key syntactic structures, drawing on a corpus of six transcribed and translated texts, alongside numerous utterances collected during fieldwork. The book concludes with a Hobyot-French lexicon and highlights ongoing linguistic changes"-- Provided by publisher.
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