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- W4604195 abstract "Dealing with the pre-Islamic period of Arabic is nearly the same as making guesses at what the prehistory of a language could have been like, on the mere basis of a few statements issued by neighbouring people who did not speak it and of a host of scattered epigraphic materials which, however, may or not reflect the speakers’ true speech and, at any rate, yield very little trustworthy information because of the well-known shorthand features of most Semitic scripts, compounded in this case by their being encoded in makeshift adopted Aramaic or South Arabian unvocalized alphabets. This much said, it is only fair to commend Dr. Mascitelli for his enthusiastic resolve to undertake an almost impossible task, while fully conscious of this, in an area where many a seasoned Semitic scholar has failed or, at least, been unable to produce new conclusive evidences. We would wholeheartedly admit our feeling of having often sailed in that same boat and regularly failed in the same purpose in many, if not perhaps all of our pronouncements on this matter; however, we also think that those of us who have joined this fray do not deserve the epithet of fools for having rushed into grounds where smarter and more angelical fellows have refrained from treading. Because, Arabic being in many ways the best known and, therefore, the most important Semitic language, any increase in our present degree of knowledge thereof is of paramount importance for a better description of the whole family; as a matter of fact, the very scarcity of certainties about that pre-Islamic and prehistoric period of its existence weighs heavily on the whole realm of Semitic linguistics, and has often been the source of bad mistakes and misapprehensions. The slightest shade of a chance of success in this endeavour is in our view, therefore, worth the effort and the risk of failure, as meant by the Arabic proverb /illā ḥaẓiyyah falā aliyyah/ ”if (the purpose) is not attained, let it (at least) not be untried”. In such disposition only are we trying to review this new important addition to the bibliography on the oldest phases of Arabic; at any rate, the momentous impact of whatever opinions are published on an issue like this is the main justification for the unusual length of our notes and comments. This published version of the author’s Ph.D. dissertation is divided in two distinctly outlined parts, namely, a first one, devoted to the emergence, background and spreading of Arabic in the pre-Islamic period, and a second one, being a selection of basic epigraphic texts, followed by their graphemic, phonetic and morphological analysis and a final chapter on the origins of the Arabic script." @default.
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