Egypt
The Guardian, UK (Andrew Dalby)
- Book Review: The Multilingual Experience In Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Katherine McDonald) Arietta Papaconstantinou (ed.), The Multilingual Experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids. Farnham/Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. x, 240. ISBN 9780754665366. Preview The...
- Will The Coptic Language Rise Again?
RantRave Some people agonise over endangered species. My pet cause is endangered languages. When I hear that a dialect is dying out or that young people aren’t passing on an obscure language, it saddens me. It is one thing to examine shards of pottery...
- New Book: The Modal System Of Earlier Egyptian Complement Clauses
BRILL The BRILL Newsletter has announced the publication of a new title in its list: The Modal System of Earlier Egyptian Complement Clauses A Study in Pragmatics in a Dead Language by Sami Uljas The present work proposes a novel analysis of Complement...
- Coptic Language's Last Survivors
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=106 "Considered an extinct language, the Coptic language is believed to exist only in the liturgical language of the Coptic Church in Egypt. The ancient language that lost in prominence thanks largely...
- Andrew Sherratt - Obituary
http://tinyurl.com/jbvhz (Ancient Near East.net)Posted with sincere regret. "British prehistorian, Andrew Sherratt, died Friday afternoon (24 Feb). Andrew had a massive heart attack, and was alone, having just parked his car, when he died. He was apparently...
Egypt
Lost and threatened languages
The Guardian, UK (Andrew Dalby)
Another post which has a lot more irrelevant than relevant stuff, but I thought that it might be of interest. Andrew Dalby is an expert on linguistics and has recently published a book looking at the death of languages today (apparently a language is dying every two weeks). In this piece he lists 10 languages which are dying or have already died, of which ancient Egyptian is one. Others include Cherokee and Cornish - and, most surprisingly, French!
- Book Review: The Multilingual Experience In Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Katherine McDonald) Arietta Papaconstantinou (ed.), The Multilingual Experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids. Farnham/Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. x, 240. ISBN 9780754665366. Preview The...
- Will The Coptic Language Rise Again?
RantRave Some people agonise over endangered species. My pet cause is endangered languages. When I hear that a dialect is dying out or that young people aren’t passing on an obscure language, it saddens me. It is one thing to examine shards of pottery...
- New Book: The Modal System Of Earlier Egyptian Complement Clauses
BRILL The BRILL Newsletter has announced the publication of a new title in its list: The Modal System of Earlier Egyptian Complement Clauses A Study in Pragmatics in a Dead Language by Sami Uljas The present work proposes a novel analysis of Complement...
- Coptic Language's Last Survivors
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=106 "Considered an extinct language, the Coptic language is believed to exist only in the liturgical language of the Coptic Church in Egypt. The ancient language that lost in prominence thanks largely...
- Andrew Sherratt - Obituary
http://tinyurl.com/jbvhz (Ancient Near East.net)Posted with sincere regret. "British prehistorian, Andrew Sherratt, died Friday afternoon (24 Feb). Andrew had a massive heart attack, and was alone, having just parked his car, when he died. He was apparently...