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Language contact in ancient Egypt / Thomas Schneider.
Penn Museum Library - Egyptian Collection P40.5.L382 E38 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schneider, Thomas, 1964- author.
- Series:
- Einführungen und Quellentexte zur Ägyptologie ; Bd. 16.
- Einführungen und Quellentexte zur Ägyptologie ; Band 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Languages in contact--Egypt--History--To 1500.
- Languages in contact.
- Multilingualism--Egypt--History--To 1500.
- Multilingualism.
- Egypt--Languages--History--To 1500.
- Egypt.
- Language and languages.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 248 pages : 4 color maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : LIT Verlag, [2023]
- Summary:
- 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. -- Summary from book.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-204) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9783643915078
- 3643915071
- OCLC:
- 1372423070
- Publisher Number:
- 9783643915078
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