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.