Preserving, Documenting, and Revitalizing Surviving Dialects and Endangered Local Languages

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Nayef J. Jomaa Amir Azad Adli Al-Kathiri

Preserving, Documenting, and Revitalizing Surviving Dialects and Endangered Local Languages

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Nayef J. Jomaa, Amir Azad Adli Al-Kathiri

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Information Science Reference
11 December 2025

Historical & comparative linguistics; Library, archive & information management

Preserving, documenting, and revitalizing surviving dialects and endangered local languages safeguards the world's cultural and linguistic diversity. As globalization, migration, and technological dominance accelerate the decline of smaller language communities, expressions of identity, history, and knowledge face extinction. Through documentation, revitalization efforts, and the integration of modern technologies, linguists and local speakers can work together to ensure language preservation. Protecting endangered languages may help to further maintain intellectual heritages and worldviews embedded in everyday languages. Preserving, Documenting, and Revitalizing Surviving Dialects and Endangered Local Languages explores at-risk languages and dialects, mapping the distribution of these languages, delving into their linguistic features, and examining the sociocultural and historical factors contributing to their endangerment. It combines linguistic research with anthropological insights, highlighting ongoing efforts to preserve, document, and revitalize these languages. This book covers topics such as endangered languages, linguistic diversity, and anthropology, and is a useful resource for sociologists, linguists, historians, academicians, researchers, and scientists.

Edited by: Nayef J. Jomaa, Amir Azad Adli Al-Kathiri
Imprint: Information Science Reference
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
ISBN: 9798337337319
Pages: 550
Publication Date: 11 December 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nayef J. Jomaa is an assistant professor in Applied Linguistics at the University of Technology and Applied Sciences-Salalah, Sultanate of Oman. He has several years of teaching experience in Syria, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and Turkey. His research interests focus on L2 writing, academic writing, genre analysis, and Systemic Functional Linguistics (Functional Grammar), AI in language learning and teaching. Amir Azad Adli Al-Kathiri holds an MA in the phonetics of Shehret and a PhD in Omani Arabic dialects from Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat. His research interests lie in the Shehret and Mehri languages of southern Arabia and in Omani Arabic dialects. He is currently Assistant Professor of Arabic at the University of Technology and Applied Sciences in Salalah, having worked as Assistant Professor at the Department of Arabic Language, Dhofar University. He has published a book on the phonetics of Shehret, contributed to A Comparative Glossary of Modern South Arabian, and published academic articles on the verb in Shehret, the snake-bite treatment tradition of raʕbūt in Dhofar and on the Kathiri dialect of Arabic.