Rewriting Dialectal Arabic Prehistory - The Ancient Egyptian Lexical Evidence

This study is the first attempt to reconstruct the prehistory of Arabic by examining lexical evidence of its symbiotic relationship with Ancient Egyptian already apparent from the Pyramid Texts (c. 2613-2181 BC). It documents the contention that Ancient Egypt was a strategic site in its early prehistory.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Borg
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.11.2021
• EAN: 9789004472129
• ISBN: 978-90-04-47212-9
• No. of pages: 394
• Weight: 781 g
• Series: Studies in Semitic Languages a
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics