Author
Borg, Alexander
Publication Date
2021
Publication Place
Leiden ; Boston -
Brill
Type
Book
Language
ara,egy,eng
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
383
Library
University of Heidelberg
Library Asset ID
978-90-04-47212-9
Record ID
68811237
Date
2021
Sample Text
"Deploying a bottom up instead of the conventional top down approach, and drawing extensively on both literary and dialectal Arabic lexical sources, the present glossary proposes and validates the contention of a prehistoric symbiosis transpiring between Ancient Egyptian and Arabic two and a half millennia before the advent of Islam. Its empirical rationale and methodological basis rest firmly on these venerable idioms' rich textual documentation, yielding the language historian an ample etymological database enriched-in the case of Arabic-with a virtually unlimited corpus drawing on the living speech of some 300 million speakers across the Near East and Africa. The muster provided here comprises over 800 lexemes and reveals, for the first time in longue durée research on Afroasiatic, striking unsuspected commonalities linking Old Egyptian to Yemeni Arabic"--
Bibliyografik Not
Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Borg, Alexander: Rewriting dialectal Arabic prehistory. - Leiden : Brill, 2021. - 1 Online-Ressource (X, 383 Seiten), Rezensiert in: Quack, Joachim Friedrich, 1966 - : [Rezension von: Alexander Borg, Rewriting dialectal Arabic prehistory]
Dipnotlar
Includes bibliographical references and index
Toplam başlık serisi
Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; volume 105
RVK Notasyonu
EN 1300
Bağlantılar
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