Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics

Aims & Scope

Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics is a new peer-reviewed international forum devoted to the descriptive and theoretical study of Afroasiatic languages.

The territory of the Afroasiatic family spans a vast area to the South of the Mediterranean, extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Middle East and reaching deep into the heart of Africa.

Some of the Afroasiatic languages have been studied for centuries, while others still remain partially or entirely undocumented.

In the course of the second half of the 20th century, the constantly increasing qualitative and quantitative contribution of Afroasiatic languages to the elaboration of linguistic theory has met with considerable attention from the linguistic community.

The Journal seeks top-level contributions in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, comparative and historical linguistics.

Its target audience comprises specialists in Afroasiatic languages and general linguists.The online edition offers the option to include sound and video files as well as other datafiles.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.1
2024	0.20

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	29395

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	6

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.103

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q4

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Individuating and Measure Readings of Classifier Constructions: Evidence from Modern Hebrew

  Citation: 39

  Authors: Susan

• Hebrew Idioms: The Organization of the Lexical Component

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Julia, Tal

• The Location of Sentential Negation in Arabic Varieties

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Elabbas, Mahmoud, Rania, Abdelaadim, Dana

• When Do Universal Preferences Emerge in Language Development? The Acquisition of Hebrew Stress

  Citation: 18

  Authors: Galit, Outi

• On issues of Arabic syntax: An essay in syntactic argumentation

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Usama

• Coreferential Dative Constructions in Syrian Arabic and Modern Hebrew

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Nisrine, Nora

• Non-Finiteness in Early Hebrew Verbs

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Lyle

• Reverse Engineering: Emphatic Consonants and the Adaptation of Vowels in French Loanwords into Moroccan Arabic

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Michael, Nabila

• Empirical and Theoretical Arguments in Favor of the Discontinuous Root in Semitic Languages

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Noam, Ya'ar

• The Phonological Pattern of phi-features in the Perfective Paradigm of Moroccan Arabic

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Jean

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