Language Contact in Ancient Egypt

• Author(s): Thomas Schneider,
• Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
• Pages: 248
• ISBN_10: 3643915071
  ISBN_13: 9783643915078
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Ancient / Egypt , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Literary Criticism / African , Social Science / Archaeology ,

Description:... 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.