The Meroitic Language and Writing System
- Authors:
- Claude Rilly, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
- Alex de Voogt, Museum of Natural History, New York
- Date Published: October 2012
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107008663
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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.
Read more- The first book available in the English language to offer a full introduction to the language and writing system of the ancient Nubians
- Integrates discussion of the language and the writing system
- Analyzes the role and the results of comparative linguistics in understanding Meroitic
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- Date Published: October 2012
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107008663
- length: 262 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 159 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.49kg
- contains: 14 b/w illus. 3 maps 237 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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