The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages

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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages

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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages is the first comprehensive reference work treating all of the languages of antiquity. Clear and systematic in its approach, the Encyclopedia combines full linguistic coverage of all the well documented ancient languages, representing numerous language families from around the globe. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context. The Encyclopedia brings together an international array of scholars, each a leading specialist in ancient language study. While designed primarily for linguistic professionals and students, this work will prove invaluable to all whose studies take them into the realm of ancient language.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2004
Print ISBN
9780521562560
eBook ISBN
9781316340950
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Copyrighit
  5. Contents
  6. Figures
  7. Tables
  8. Maps
  9. Contributors
  10. Preface
  11. Abbreviations
  12. CHAPTER 1: Introduction
  13. CHAPTER 2: Sumerian
  14. CHAPTER 3: Elamite
  15. CHAPTER 4: Hurrian
  16. CHAPTER 5: Urartian
  17. CHAPTER 6: Afro-Asiatic
  18. CHAPTER 7: Ancient Egyptian and Coptic
  19. APPENDIX 1: Sign list
  20. CHAPTER 8: Akkadian and Eblaite
  21. Appendix 2: The cuneiform script
  22. CHAPTER 9: Ugaritic
  23. CHAPTER 10: Hebrew
  24. CHAPTER 11: Phoenician and Punic
  25. CHAPTER 12: Canaanite dialects
  26. CHAPTER 13: Aramaic
  27. CHAPTER 14: Ge’ez (Aksum)
  28. CHAPTER 15: Ancient South Arabian
  29. CHAPTER 16: Ancient North Arabian
  30. CHAPTER 17: Indo-European
  31. CHAPTER 18: Hittite
  32. CHAPTER 19: Luvian
  33. CHAPTER 20: Palaic
  34. CHAPTER 21: Lycian
  35. CHAPTER 22: Lydian
  36. CHAPTER 23: Carian
  37. CHAPTER 24: Attic Greek
  38. CHAPTER 25: Greek dialects
  39. CHAPTER 26: Sanskrit
  40. CHAPTER 27: Middle Indic
  41. CHAPTER 28: Old Persian
  42. CHAPTER 29: Avestan
  43. CHAPTER 30: Pahlavi
  44. CHAPTER 31: Phrygian
  45. CHAPTER 32: Latin
  46. CHAPTER 33: Sabellian languages
  47. CHAPTER 34: Venetic
  48. CHAPTER 35: Continental Celtic
  49. CHAPTER 36: Gothic
  50. CHAPTER 37: Ancient Nordic
  51. CHAPTER 38: Classical Armenian
  52. CHAPTER 39: Etruscan
  53. CHAPTER 40: Early Georgian
  54. CHAPTER 41: Ancient Chinese
  55. CHAPTER 42: Old Tamil
  56. CHAPTER 43: Mayan
  57. CHAPTER 44: Epi-Olmec
  58. Appendix 3: Zapotec
  59. CHAPTER 45: Reconstructed ancient languages
  60. Index of general subjects
  61. Index of grammar and linguistics
  62. Index of named linguistic laws and principles
  63. Index of languages

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