Oman’s Linguistic Heritage Project funding for 3 research studies

Oman’s Linguistic Heritage Project funding for 3 research studies

Conducted in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Youth, the ‘Linguistic Heritage' project aims to record, transcribe and preserve the oral linguistic texts before they disappear.Muscat: Three research studies to highlight Omani cultural heritage are being funded by the Linguistic Heritage Project, one of the more important projects under the Omani Cultural Heritage Strategic Research Programme of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation.Conducted in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Youth, the ‘Linguistic Heritage' project aims to record, transcribe and preserve the oral linguistic texts before they disappear. It also seeks to support and encourage researchers interested such studies and provide them with appropriate directions, in addition to enriching and revitalising language studies in Oman.The research studies funded by the project are:1) Inventorying and documenting inscriptions, drawings and archaeological writings on rock walls, tombstones and building walls in Wilayat Al AmeratDr. Saif bin Yousef Al Aghbari, head of the research team, stated that the idea of the project started with the search for the beginnings of writing in the Omani civilisation, which began with rock drawings, then evolved into inscriptions and symbols, then into the current Arabic writing. The study aims to count these