Mediterranean Language Review 31 (2024)

The Mediterranean Language Review is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed forum for the investigation of language and culture in the Mediterranean. Articles, reviews and review articles address issues relating to multiple aspects of Mediterranean languages, past and present. Among these are essays discussing linguistic contact and diffusion in the Mediterranean area and its hinterland, as well as interaction of language and culture in the region. Sociolinguistic aspects, religion and language, and linguistic stratification with areal typology and the languages of the Mediterranean littoral are focused on. Finally, the historical evolution and present state of languages spoken by small nations and ethnic minorities, ethnolinguistic studies on island communities in the Mediterranean, the interlinguas Kultursprachen and Mediterranean Lingua Franca, as well as approaches to Mediterranean lexicology sum up the journal’s objects of study. From the contents (altogether 7 contributions): Werner Diem, Eine Vereinbarung von 1207 n. Chr. aus Toledo über eine Mauer und ein Wasserrecht Marinus Wiedner, A Diachronic Study on the Preservation of a Selection of Five Phonemes in Contemporary Béarnese Dieter Stern, Lo Schiavonesco – Plurilingualism on the Venetian and Dalmatian Stage of the 16th–17th Century Bruno Herin, Two Texts in Syrian Domari Assaf Bar-Moshe, The Jewish Arabic Dialects of Southern Iraqi Kurdistan within the Jewish q?ltu Dialects Continuum