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.
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Language Contact in Ancient Egypt
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Table of contents
- Cover
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Language contact in ancient Egypt
- 2. LANGUAGE CONTACT WITHIN THE AFRICAN CONTINENT
- 3. LANGUAGE CONTACT WITH THE NEAR EAST
- 4. LANGUAGE CONTACT WITH ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN LANGUAGES
- 5. PHENOMENA OF LANGUAGE CONTACT – AN ANALYTICAL OVERVIEW
- 6. CONFLICT AND COMMUNICATION: FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES IN THE EGYPTIAN MILITARY
- 7. CONCLUSION: MULTILINGUALISM, INDEXICALITY, LINGUISTIC IDENTITY
- 8. BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 9. INDEX OF WORDS AND PHRASES FROM INDIVIDUAL LANGUAGES
- APPENDIX: MAPS
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