Language Contact in Ancient Egypt

Autor*innen

• Thomas Schneider

Parameter

• Geschichte
• Prähistorie & Urgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften

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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.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Einband: Paperback