Language Contact in Ancient Egypt

Download or read book Language Contact in Ancient Egypt written by Thomas Schneider and published by LIT Verlag. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.