The Middle East: Eastern Arabic Languages on the Arabian Peninsula and Fertile Crescent
Description
Middle East: Eastern Arabic Languages on the Arabian Peninsula and Fertile Crescent
Data Source:
Irvine, A. K. and David Appleyard. 2007. "The Middle East and North Africa." In R. E. Asher & Christopher Moseley (eds.), Atlas of the World's Languages. 294. Oxford: Routledge.
"North Afroasiatic, Subtree of Afroasiatic: Asher & Moseley, 2007". MultiTree: A Digital Library of Language Relationships
Date Digitized: June 2011
Map Description:
The areas pictured on this map display locations where languages from the Eastern Arabic subgroup of Afro-Asiatic are spoken today on the Arabian peninsula and fertile crescent, providing information regarding individual languages and dialects. This includes language communities, many of which are located around the prominent cities in the area.
This subgroup includes the largest number of languages spoken in this area and can be divided into smaller groups as displayed on this map.
This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Atlas of the World's Languages.
Other LL-MAP resources related to this project:
This folder (The Middle East and Arabian Peninsula) contains other maps showing linguistic subgroups. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.
"North Afroasiatic, Subtree of Afroasiatic: Asher & Moseley, 2007". MultiTree: A Digital Library of Language Relationships
Date Digitized: June 2011
Map Description:
The areas pictured on this map display locations where languages from the Eastern Arabic subgroup of Afro-Asiatic are spoken today on the Arabian peninsula and fertile crescent, providing information regarding individual languages and dialects. This includes language communities, many of which are located around the prominent cities in the area.
This subgroup includes the largest number of languages spoken in this area and can be divided into smaller groups as displayed on this map.
This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Atlas of the World's Languages.
Other LL-MAP resources related to this project:
This folder (The Middle East and Arabian Peninsula) contains other maps showing linguistic subgroups. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.
Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process.