Languages of Iraq, ancient and modern

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Languages of Iraq, ancient and modern

edited by J.N. Postgate

British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 2007

  • : pbk

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注記

"Derives from a "study day" of the same title, held by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq on 15th November 2003" -- p. v

Includes bibliographical references

収録内容

  • Introduction / Nicholas Postgate
  • Sumerian / Jeremy Black
  • Babylonian and Assyrian : a history of Akkadian / Andrew George
  • Hurrian / David Hawkins
  • Early Aramaic / Alan Millard
  • Aramaic in the medieval and modern periods / Geoffrey Khan
  • Fieldwork in neo-Aramaic / Eleanor Coghill
  • Colloquial Iraqi Arabic / Clive Holes
  • 'The Kurds are alive' : Kurdish in Iraq / Christine Allison
  • Iraqi Turkman / Christiane Bulut

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内容説明

For all five thousand years of its history Iraq has been home to a mixture of languages, spoken and written, and the same is true today. In November 2003, to celebrate the country's rich diversity and long history as a centre of civilisation the British School presented a series of talks by experts on each of the major languages of Iraq and their history, and this illustrated volume brings these now to a wider public. Iraq's languages come from different linguistic families - Semitic, Indo-European, and agglutinative languages like Sumerian, Hurrian and Turkish. Some, although long dead, have a prime place in the history of the Old World: Sumerian, probably the first language to be written and the vehicle of cuneiform scholarship for more than two millennia, and Akkadian, the language of Hammurapi and the Epic of Gilgamesh, and used across the Near East for administration and diplomacy. The history of Aramaic is even longer, stretching back to overlap with Akkadian before 1000 BC. It survives, precariously, in both written and spoken forms, being one of four languages spoken in Iraq today. Of these Arabic as a major world language has often been described, but here we have an account of the vernacular Iraqi Arabic dialects, and the descriptions of Iraqi Kurdish and Turkman are unique, detailed and authoritative.

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