A Unique Hebrew Glossary from India - An Analysis of Judeo-Urdu

This book is the first-ever publication on Judeo-Urdu, that is, the Hindi/Urdu language written in Hebrew script. It provides background and an introduction to the Judeo-Urdu corpus, presents nearly two hundred entries from one text - a Hebrew-Judeo-Urdu glossary from the 19th century - and analyzes the orthography, phonology, and morphology of Judeo-Urdu. In the text commentary and grammatical analysis, comparison is made with standard Hindi and Urdu, from which Judeo-Urdu diverges in many interesting ways. This study will be of value to anyone interested in Jewish languages, as well as to those interested in Hindi and Urdu dialectology.

Product details

• Authors: Aaron D Rubin
• Publisher: Gorgias Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.11.2016
• EAN: 9781463206130
• ISBN: 978-1-4632-0613-0
• No. of pages: 148
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 226 g
• Series: Gorgias Handbooks
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies