The multilingual experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids
By: Arietta Papaconstantinou [editor].
Contributors: Papaconstantinou, Arietta.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754665366
Subjects: Multilingualism -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500; Bilingualism -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500; Languages in contact -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500; Greek language, Hellenistic (300 B.C.-600 A.D.) -- Dialects -- Egypt; Coptic language -- History -- To 1500; Manuscripts, Coptic (Papyri); Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri); Egypt -- Languages -- History -- To 1500
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Arietta Papaconstantinou; title: Linguistic identity in Graeco-Roman Egypt : evidence for a multilingual society : documents and archives / Sofía Torallas Tovar; title: Bilingual papyrological archives / Willy Clarysse; title: Coptic or Greek? bilingualism in the papyri / Sarah J.Clackson ; edited by Arietta Papaconstantinou; title: Multilingual archives and documents in post-conquest Egypt / Petra Sijpesteijn; title: Case studies in language use in a multilingual society. What's in a sign? translating filiation in the demotic magical papyri / Jacco Dieleman; title: Early Coptic epistolography / Malcolm Choat; title: Toujours honneur au grec? À propos d'un papyrus gréco-copte de la région thébaine / Anne Boudhors; title: Language choice in the Qurra archive / Sebastian Richter; title: Aristophanes son of Johannes: an eighth-century bilingual scribe? A study of graphic bilingualism / Jennifer Cromwell.