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Languages of Iraq, Ancient and Modern
J. Nicholas Postgate
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Description for Languages of Iraq, Ancient and Modern
Paperback. For all five thousand years of its history, Iraq has been home to a mixture of languages, spoken and written. This volume presents an account of the vernacular Iraqi Arabic dialects, and the descriptions of Iraqi Kurdish and Turkman. Editor(s): Postgate, J. N. Num Pages: 187 pages, 32 b/w maps & illus. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 219 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 492.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The British School of Archaeology in Iraq United Kingdom
Number of pages
187
Condition
New
Number of Pages
187
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780903472210
SKU
V9780903472210
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About J. Nicholas Postgate
J N Postgate is Professor of Assyriology and Fellow of Trinity College. He works on the social and economic history of Mesopotamia, especially Assyria.
Reviews for Languages of Iraq, Ancient and Modern
...the book serves as an overview not only of the enormous wealth of linguistic data that has come out of Mesopotamia/Iraq over the millennia, but also of the contrasting perpectives that modern scholars bring to the study of language.'
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