Rewriting dialectal Arabic prehistory : the ancient Egyptian lexical evidence /

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Author / Creator:Borg, Alexander, author.
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Description:x, 383 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Ancient Egyptian
Arabic
Series:Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 0081-8461 ; volume 105
Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 105.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12733286
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ISBN:9789004472129
9004472126
9789004472136
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"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"--
Other form:Online version: Borg, Alexander. Rewriting dialectal Arabic prehistory Leiden; Boston : Brill, 2021 9789004472136
Standard no.:40030910595

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