Language Contact in Ancient Egypt

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Language Contact in Ancient Egypt is written by Thomas Schneider and published by LIT Verlag Münster. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3643915071 (ISBN 10) and 9783643915078 (ISBN 13).

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.