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Wed Apr 11 2012
Books: Egyptian Grammar: Breasted (Tr), Erman
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Date: 28-Mar-2012
From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europa t-online.de>
Subject: Egyptian Grammar: Breasted (Tr), Erman
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Title: Egyptian Grammar
Subtitle: with table of Signs, Bibliography, Exercises and Reading and Glossary
Series Title: LINCOM Gramatica
Published: 2012
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
http://www.lincom.eu
Book URL: www.lincom-shop.eu
Author: Adolf Erman
Translator: James Henry Breasted
Paperback: ISBN: 9783862882045 Pages: 295 Price: Europe EURO 57.80
Abstract:
The Egyptian language is related to the Semitic languages (Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic), to the East-African languages (Bischari, Galla, Somali), and to the Berber languages of North-Africa. The language of its oldest monuments belongs as far back as the fourth millenium B.C. and did not entirely die out until three centuries ago (from the preface). Contents: Orthography and Phonetics, pronouns, nouns (gender, number, genitive, article), verbs (classes, voice, inflection, compunds, imperative, nominal forms), particles, sentence (nominal sentence, the parts of the sentence, kinds of sentences), table with signs, exercises for reading, glossary (re-edition; originally published 1894, London).
Linguistic Field(s):
Afro-Asiatic
Ancient languages
Historical Linguistics
Language Documentation
Typology
Subject Language(s): Egyptian (egy)
Written In: English (eng)
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