Research Catalog

Languages of Iraq, ancient and modern / edited by J.N. Postgate.

Title
Languages of Iraq, ancient and modern / edited by J.N. Postgate.
Publication
[London?] : British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 2007.

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors
  • British School of Archaeology in Iraq.
  • Postgate, J. N.
Description
ix, 187 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.
Subject
  • Akkadian language > Congresses
  • Arabic language > Congresses
  • Aramaic language > Congresses
  • Iraq > Languages > Congresses
  • Kurdish language > Congresses
  • Semitic languages > History > Congresses
  • Sumerian language > Congresses
  • Turkmen language > Dialects > Iraq > Congresses
Note
  • "Derives from a "study day" of the same title, held by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq on 15th November 2003"--P. v.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Nicholas Postgate -- Sumerian / Jeremy Black -- Babylonian and Assyrian: a history of Akkadian / Andrew George -- Hurrian / David Hawkins -- Early Aramaic / Alan Millard -- Aramaic in the medieval and modern periods / Geoffrey Khan -- Fieldwork in neo-Aramaic / Eleanor Coghill -- Colloquial Iraqi Arabic / Clive Holes -- 'The Kurds are alive': Kurdish in Iraq / Christine Allison -- Iraqi Turkman / Christiane Bulut.
ISBN
  • 9780903472210 (pbk.)
  • 090347221X (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2008296050