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The Meroitic language and writing system
- Title
- The Meroitic language and writing system / Claude Rilly, Alex de Voogt.
- Author
- Rilly, Claude.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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- Additional Authors
- Voogt, Alexander J. de.
- Description
- xii, 252 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This book provides an introduction to the Meroitic language and writing system"--
- "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 archeologists 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"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]- 240) and indexes.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 12-1105
- ISBN
- 9781107008663
- 1107008662
- LCCN
- 2012002425
- OCLC
- 774021219
- Author
- Rilly, Claude.
- Title
- The Meroitic language and writing system / Claude Rilly, Alex de Voogt.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]- 240) and indexes.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Voogt, Alexander J. de.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 12-1105