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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 13-26, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
wiley   +1 more source

ArGemma: A Multi‐Task Fine‐Tuning Framework for Adapting Gemma to Arabic

Expert Systems, Volume 43, Issue 11, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Open‐source large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced natural language processing (NLP), particularly for English. However, their performance in Arabic has remained limited due to the scarcity of high‐quality datasets and the high computational cost of full fine‐tuning.
Taha Alselwi, Serap Çakar Kaman, Beyza Eken   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does geographical periphery imply linguistic periphery? The examples of the Arabic dialects of Cilicia and Urfa in Southern Turkey

, 1970
In the introduction to his valuable book Arabic as a Minority Language, Jonathan Owens wrote: ―All around the fringes of the present-day Arabic world are or were found enclaves of Arabic-speaking peoples who identify themselves as ‗Arabs\u27.
Procházka, Stephan
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The Social Contract and Collective Action: Grievances, Cleavages, and Protests in the Middle East

Kyklos, Volume 79, Issue 4, Page 994-1009, November 2026.
ABSTRACT How do grievances turn into collective action? This article examines how citizens' expectations in social contracts lead them to embark on street protests. It draws on original, nationally representative telephone surveys in Tunisia and Lebanon and unpacks popular preferences about the states' obligations to deliver social service provision ...
Markus Loewe, Holger Albrecht
wiley   +1 more source

Negative Particles and Morphemes in Jordanian Arabic Dialects [PDF]

, 2016
This paper aims at investigating the negative particles and morphemes in three main Jordanian dialects (Urban, Rural and Bedouin). This quantitative and qualitative study includes 30 teachers from different disciplines who use these dialects.
Ahmad Mrayat, Mrayat, Ahmad
core  

Dasinya: A dataset and preprocessing pipeline for the Badini Kurdish dialect. [PDF]

Data Brief
Saeed VA, Jacksi K.
europepmc   +1 more source

Focus prosody in Qassimi Arabic: acoustic analysis and computational modeling. [PDF]

Front Hum Neurosci
Alzaidi MSA, Xu Y, Al Thowaini BM, Bani Younes MAS.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Linguistic and Cultural Adaptation and Translation Into Arabic of the Dementia Screening Questionnaire for Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities (DSQIID): The DSQIID-A (Arabic). [PDF]

J Appl Res Intellect Disabil
Yanni MHY, Elmubarak MA, Al Ali HMM, AlShammar NEMA, AlShammar A, Alabrach NS, Forbes D, Thalitaya MD.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Dialectal substitution as an adversarial approach for evaluating Arabic NLP robustness. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Alshemali B.
europepmc   +1 more source

An acoustical dataset of storytelling and story reading in Jordanian Arabic. [PDF]

Data Brief
Abuoudeh M.
europepmc   +1 more source