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Title

The ancient languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum / edited by Roger D. Woodard.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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Additional Authors

Woodard, Roger D.

Description

xix, 251 p. : ill., map.; 25 m.

Summary

"This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Aksum, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. 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 volume brings together an international array of scholars, each a leading specialist in ancient language study. While designed primarily for scholars and students of linguistics, this work will prove invaluable to all whose studies take them into the realm of ancient language."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Akkadisch
• Aksum (Kingdom) > Languages
• Egypt > Languages
• Elamisch
• Extinct languages > Aksum (Kingdom)
• Extinct languages > Egypt
• Extinct languages > Iraq
• Geez
• Iraq > Languages
• Sumerisch
• Ägyptisch

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Language in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Aksum: an introduction / Roger D. Woodard -- Sumerian / Piotr Michalowski -- Elamite / Matthew W. Stolper -- Akkadian and Eblaite / John Huehnergard and Christopher Woods -- Egyptian and Coptic / Antonio Loprieno -- Ge'ez (Aksum) / Gene Gragg.

ISBN

• 9780521684972
• 0521684978

LCCN

^^2008274880

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library