Language Contact in Ancient Egypt (Einführungen und Quellentexte zur Ägyptologie)

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. Thomas Schneider is Professor of Egyptology and Near Eastern Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Cover 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 8 Acknowledgments 13 1. Introduction: Language contact in ancient Egypt 16 2. LANGUAGE CONTACT WITHIN THE AFRICAN CONTINENT 20 3. LANGUAGE CONTACT WITH THE NEAR EAST 86 4. LANGUAGE CONTACT WITH ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN LANGUAGES 124 5. PHENOMENA OF LANGUAGE CONTACT – AN ANALYTICAL OVERVIEW 140 6. CONFLICT AND COMMUNICATION: FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES IN THE EGYPTIAN MILITARY 154 7. CONCLUSION: MULTILINGUALISM, INDEXICALITY, LINGUISTIC IDENTITY 168 8. BIBLIOGRAPHY 172 9. INDEX OF WORDS AND PHRASES FROM INDIVIDUAL LANGUAGES 220 APPENDIX: MAPS 259