The Afroasiatic languages

The Afroasiatic languages / edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Erin Shay.

Afroasiatic languages are spoken by some 300 million people in Northern, Central and Eastern Africa and the Middle East. This book is the first typological study of these languages, which are comprised of around 375 living and extinct varieties. They are an important object of study because of their...

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Other Authors: Frajzyngier, Zygmunt, Shay, Erin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:Cambridge language surveys.
Subjects:
Afroasiatic languages.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Arabic.
Afroasiatic languages
Hamitosemitische Sprachen
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay
  • 2. Berber / Maarten Kossmann
  • 3. Ancient Egyptian and Coptic / Antonio Loprieno and Matthias Müller
  • 4. Semitic / Gene Gregg and Robert Hoberman
  • 5. Chadic / Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin Shay
  • 6. Cushitic / Maarten Mous
  • 7. Omotic / Azeb Amha
  • 8. Typological outline of the Afroasiatic phylum / Zygmunt Frajzyngier.

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