Meroitic Language and Writing System - A Linguistic and Philological Introduction

Informationen zum Autor Claude Rilly is Director of the French Archaeological Unit in Khartoum, Sudan. He is the author of two volumes on the Meroitic language and writing system and the editor of three volumes about Meroitic inscriptions. Alex de Voogt is Curator of African Ethnology in the Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He is the editor of several volumes of The Idea of Writing. Klappentext This book provides an introduction to the Meroitic language and writing system. Zusammenfassung This book provides an introduction to the Meroitic language and writing system that was used between ca. 300 BC and 400 AD in the kingdom of Meroe! which existed in what is now Sudan and Egyptian Nubia. This book details advances in the understanding of Meroitic! a language that until recently was considered untranslatable. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction to history and texts; 2. Meroitic writing; 3. Linguistic affiliation; 4. Meroitic phonology: facts and reconstruction; 5. Grammar: facts and hypotheses; Conclusions.

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• Authors: Alex de Voogt, Claude Rilly, Claude (Centre National De La Recherche Sci Rilly, Claude (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Rilly, Claude Voogt Rilly, Rilly Claude, Alex De Voogt
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2012
• EAN: 9781107008663
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00866-3
• No. of pages: 262
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Sudan, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, Historical & comparative linguistics, Writing systems, alphabets, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Historical and comparative linguistics, Nilo-Saharan and Chari-Nile (Macrosudanic) languages, Nilo-Saharan & Chari-Nile (Macrosudanic) languages