TY - BOOK ID - 3319993 TI - The multilingual experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids PY - 2010 SN - 9780754665366 0754665364 9781138257344 9781315238210 9781351885362 1138257346 PB - Burlington : Ashgate, DB - UniCat KW - Multilingualism KW - Bilingualism KW - Languages in contact KW - Greek language, Hellenistic (300 B.C.-600 A.D.) KW - Coptic language KW - Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) KW - Multilinguisme KW - Bilinguisme KW - Langues en contact KW - Grec hellénistique (Langue) KW - Copte (Langue) KW - Papyrus grecs KW - History KW - Dialects KW - Histoire KW - Dialectes KW - Egypt KW - Egypte KW - Languages KW - Langues KW - Coptic manuscripts (Papyri) KW - Coptic manuscripts (Papyri). KW - Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri). KW - Grec hellénistique (Langue) KW - Plurilingualism KW - Polyglottism KW - Language and languages KW - Greek papyri KW - Papyri, Greek KW - Manuscripts, Classical (Papyri) KW - Manuscripts (Papyri) KW - Areal linguistics KW - Greek language (Koinē) KW - Hellenistic Greek KW - Koinē (Greek language) KW - Manuscripts, Coptic (Papyri) KW - Egyptian language KW - Égypte KW - Ägypten KW - Egitto KW - Egipet KW - Egiptos KW - Miṣr KW - Southern Region (United Arab Republic) KW - Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) KW - Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) KW - Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) KW - Egipat KW - Arab Republic of Egypt KW - A.R.E. KW - ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) KW - Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah KW - Mitsrayim KW - Egipt KW - Ijiptʻŭ KW - Misri KW - Ancient Egypt KW - Gouvernement royal égyptien KW - جمهورية مصر العربية KW - مِصر KW - مَصر KW - Maṣr KW - Khēmi KW - エジプト KW - Ejiputo KW - Egypti KW - Egypten KW - מצרים KW - United Arab Republic UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3319993 AB - For over a millennium and a half, Egypt was home to at least two commonly used languages of communication. Although this situation is by no means exceptional in the ancient and medieval worlds, the wealth of documentary sources preserved by Egypt's papyri makes the country a privileged observation ground for the study of ancient multilingualism. One of the greatest contributions of papyri to this subject is that they capture more linguistic registers than other ancient and medieval sources, since they range from very private documents not meant by their author to be read by future generations, to official documents produced by the administration, which are preserved in their original form. This collection of essays aims to make this wealth better known, as well as to give a diachronic view of multilingual practices in Egypt from the arrival of the Greeks as a political force in the country with Alexander the Great, to the beginnings of Abbasid rule when Greek, and slowly also Coptic, receded from the documentary record. The first section of the book gives an overview of the documentary sources for this subject, which for ancient history standards are very rich and as yet under-exploited. The second part contains several case studies from different periods that deal with language use in contexts of varying breadth and scope, from its the ritual use in magic or the liturgy to private letters and state administration. ER -