Rewriting dialectal Arabic prehistory : the ancient Egyptian lexical evidence / by Alexander Borg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borg, Alexander, author.

Series:

Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 105.

Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 0081-8461 ; vol. 105

Language:

Arabic

Egyptian

English

Subjects (All):

Egyptian language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc--Arabic.

Egyptian language.

Arabic language--Etymology.

History.

Arabic language--Etymology--History.

Arabic language.

Arabic language--Dialects--Yemen (Republic).

Arabic language--Dialects.

Yemen (Republic).

Genre:

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

X, 383 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021.

Summary:

"Deploying a bottom up instead of the conventional top down approach, and drawing extensively on both literary and dialectal Arabic lexical sources, the present glossary proposes and validates the contention of a prehistoric symbiosis transpiring between Ancient Egyptian and Arabic two and a half millennia before the advent of Islam. Its empirical rationale and methodological basis rest firmly on these venerable idioms' rich textual documentation, yielding the language historian an ample etymological database enriched-in the case of Arabic-with a virtually unlimited corpus drawing on the living speech of some 300 million speakers across the Near East and Africa. The muster provided here comprises over 800 lexemes and reveals, for the first time in longue durée research on Afroasiatic, striking unsuspected commonalities linking Old Egyptian to Yemeni Arabic"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Borg, Alexander. Rewriting dialectal Arabic prehistory

ISBN:

9789004472129

9004472126

OCLC:

1256627356