Rewriting Dialectal Arabic Prehistory : The Ancient Egyptian Lexical Evidence /
Borg, Alexander,
Rewriting Dialectal Arabic Prehistory : The Ancient Egyptian Lexical Evidence / The Ancient Egyptian Lexical Evidence Alexander Borg. - 1 online resource. - Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics ; 105 Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441194 . - Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics ; 105. Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441194. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9789004472136 9789004472129
10.1163/9789004472136 DOI
Arabic language.
Computational linguistics.
TK7895.S65
006.454
Rewriting Dialectal Arabic Prehistory : The Ancient Egyptian Lexical Evidence / The Ancient Egyptian Lexical Evidence Alexander Borg. - 1 online resource. - Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics ; 105 Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441194 . - Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics ; 105. Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441194. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9789004472136 9789004472129
10.1163/9789004472136 DOI
Arabic language.
Computational linguistics.
TK7895.S65
006.454