In comparing the formal Arabic language with colloquial Lebanese Syrian Arabic, Raphael Nakhla Al-Yasou`y finds a large list of foreign words that have unknowingly worked their way into the local dialect.
In this linguistics book, Ignatius Yacoub III documents the relationship between the Syriac and Arabic languages; postulating that both are intrinsic to the study of the other.
Rahmani here presents the first edition of the martyrdom stories of Guria and Shmona in Syriac, who were killed during the Diocletian persecution. The editor also gives a Latin translation and discusses historical and textual matters in the introduction.
This unique volume has a discussion of the lives of the Fathers extant in Syriac texts then at the British Museum. Plates reproduce a number of fragments of these manuscripts, together with Dietrich’s descriptions.