The multilingual experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Papaconstantinou, Arietta
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2010.
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. Coptic manuscripts (Papyri) Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) Egypt > Languages > History > To 1500.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Arietta Papaconstantinou
Linguistic identity in Graeco-Roman Egypt : evidence for a multilingual society : documents and archives / Sofía Torallas Tovar
Bilingual papyrological archives / Willy Clarysse
Coptic or Greek? bilingualism in the papyri / Sarah J.Clackson ; edited by Arietta Papaconstantinou
Multilingual archives and documents in post-conquest Egypt / Petra Sijpesteijn
Case studies in language use in a multilingual society. What's in a sign? translating filiation in the demotic magical papyri / Jacco Dieleman
Early Coptic epistolography / Malcolm Choat
Toujours honneur au grec? À propos d'un papyrus gréco-copte de la région thébaine / Anne Boudhors
Language choice in the Qurra archive / Sebastian Richter
Aristophanes son of Johannes: an eighth-century bilingual scribe? A study of graphic bilingualism / Jennifer Cromwell.