Peter Behnstedt <br/><br/>
Atlas of the Arabic dialects of Galilee (Israel):  With Some Data for Adjacent Areas 

 - 452 p.,  maps,  30 cm 
 - Handbook of Oriental Studies. Handbuch der Orientalistik;  Vol. 135 .
<br/><br/> "This atlas is based on large-scale fieldwork conducted in Galilee in the mid-nineties of last century. Galilee is the area with the highest percentage of arabophones in Israel and displays a rather complex dialectal situation. The reshuffling of large parts of the population after 1948 led to a considerable degree of dialectal diversity in many places. Moreover, many points of investigation show, besides the notorious Bedouin-sedentary dichotomy, a significant sociolinguistic variation with respect to age, sex, and denomination.The atlas contains seventy-three phonetic and phonologial maps, in addition to eighty morphological and thirty-eight lexical maps.Ten maps deal with the classification of the dialects.The atlas is of interest to semitists, dialectologists and variationists"--Provided by publisher. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Arabic language--Dialects--Israel--Galilee--Maps