Linguistics

How do languages die? The case of the Jewish Arabic dialect of Gabes (Southern Tunisia)

Discover the fading heritage of Jewish Arabic dialects, spotlighting the Gabes dialect from Southern Tunisia, in Wiktor Gębski's compelling new title.

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Diachronic variation in the Omani Arabic vernacular of the al-‘Awabi district. From Carl Reinhardt (1894) to the present day

Read now a new blog post by OBP Author Roberta Morano on her OA title 'Diachronic variation in the Omani Arabic vernacular of the al-‘Awabi district. From Carl Reinhardt (1894) to the present day'

Our books

Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew

Read now Nick Posegay's introduction to his latest book 'Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew'.

sign language

Simplified Signs: A Sleeping Giant

Read Janis Sposato's post, in which she talks about the future of the Simplified Signs project and invites readers to 'awake the giant' and start using the signs.

sign language

An Open Essay on the Personal and Profound Relevance of Simplified Signs

Read Jessica Davis' open essay on the relevance of the Simplified Signs project and her involvement in it.

sign language

Simplified Signs and Psycholinguistics

Read Filip T. Loncke's reflections on the Simplified Sign project and on his collaboration to the system.

Our books

‘Thieves’ marks’ and ‘tinder-wolves’: The Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law

Read Adèle Kreager's take on our new title 'A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law'.

Linguistics

'The Tiberian pronunciation tradition of Biblical Hebrew'

The term ‘Biblical Hebrew’ is generally used to refer to the form of the language that appears in the printed editions of the Hebrew Bible and it is this form that it is

Experimenting with Audio: Announcing Our First OA Audiobooks

Navigating AI in Academic Publishing: Balancing Efficiency, Expertise and Ethics

October 2024 Newsletter

Our reflections on ‘community over commercialisation’

How do languages die? The case of the Jewish Arabic dialect of Gabes (Southern Tunisia)

Diachronic variation in the Omani Arabic vernacular of the al-‘Awabi district. From Carl Reinhardt (1894) to the present day

Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew

Simplified Signs: A Sleeping Giant

An Open Essay on the Personal and Profound Relevance of Simplified Signs

Simplified Signs and Psycholinguistics

‘Thieves’ marks’ and ‘tinder-wolves’: The Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law

'The Tiberian pronunciation tradition of Biblical Hebrew'