Language Contact in Ancient Egypt

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. Thomas Schneider is Professor of Egyptology and Near Eastern Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Schneider
• Publisher: Lit Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2023
• EAN: 9783643915078
• ISBN: 978-3-643-91507-8
• No. of pages: 262
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 15 mm x 236 mm
• Weight: 487 g
• Series: Einführungen und Quellentexte zur Ägyptologie
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries