Conference Call for Papers
parts or in its entirety variously over a long period of time often in form of trade hierarchies by such groups as the Arabs, Ottomans, Malay, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch and British. Through these interrelations [...] area and its sociocultural as well as trade and political history, the earliest sources maybe being such works as the Periplus Maris Erythraei in the 1st C and the writings of Aetius of Amida in the 6th [...] Early linguistic sources, amongst which stand out missionary grammars and treatises and researchers such as Hugo Schuchardt and Sebastiao Dalgado, or Yule & Burnell still furnish us with important analyses