A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages by Rebecca Hass... - 9781119193296

A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern LanguagesAuthor(s): Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9781119193296, 978-1119193296\nSynopsis\nCovers the major languages, language families, and writing systems attested in the Ancient Near East\n\n Filled with enlightening chapters by noted experts in the field, this book introduces Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) languages and language families used during the time period of roughly 3200 BCE to the second century CE in the areas of Egypt, the Levant, eastern Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran. In addition to providing grammatical sketches of the respective languages, the book focuses on socio-linguistic questions such as language contact, diglossia, the development of literary standard languages, and the development of diplomatic languages or linguae francae. It also addresses the interaction of Ancient Near Eastern languages with each other and their roles .