Language Contact in Ancient Egypt

Autori

• Winfried-Thomas Schneider

Parametri

• Preistoria e antichità
• Scienze sociali
• Storia

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This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the field of language contact and multilingualism in ancient Egypt before the Greco-Roman period (4th millennium BCE–4th c. BCE). It gives a survey of the historical evidence of linguistic interference of Egyptian with languages in Africa, the Near East and the Mediterranean, discusses the different attested phenomena of language contact and offers a case study of foreign language communities in ancient Egypt. Detailed indexes makes this book a rich source of linguistic information for general linguistics and neighboring disciplines.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2023

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