Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (262 p.))
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780511920028
Content:
This book provides an introduction to the Meroitic language and writing system, which was used between circa 300 BC and 400 AD in the kingdom of Meroe, located in what is now Sudan and Egyptian Nubia. This book details advances in the understanding of Meroitic, a language that until recently was considered untranslatable. In addition to providing a full history of the script and an analysis of the phonology, grammar and linguistic affiliation of the language it features: linguistic analyses for those working on Nilo-Saharan comparative linguistics, paleographic tables useful to archaeologists for dating purposes and an overview of texts that can be translated or understood by way of analogy for those working on Nubian religion, history and archaeology
Content:
Preface -- 1. Introduction to history and texts -- 2. Meroitic writing -- 3. Linguistic affiliation -- 4. Meroitic phonology: facts and reconstruction -- 5. Grammar: facts and hypotheses; Conclusions
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107008663
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rilly, Claude, 1959 - The Meroitic language and writing system Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2012 ISBN 9781107008663
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107008663
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Meroitisch
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Sprache
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511920028
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