Egyptian phonology

Loprieno, António

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“…In his discussion of reconstructing the phonological system of the Ancient Egyptian language, Loprieno (1997) argues that it is difficult to reconstruct the phonology of Ancient Egyptian; because of "the very nature of the writing systems: Hieroglyphs, Hieratic, and Demotic represent the mere consonantal skeleton of a word (and sometimes only a portion thereof) … Semivocalic phonemes are rarely indicated, vowels practically never". Therefore, "the traditional pronunciation and transliteration of many hieroglyphic phonemes rest upon hardly anything more than scholarly conventions" (p. 431).…”

Section: Ancient Egyptian Morphologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Socio-morphological Study of Selected Egyptian Place Names with Special Reference to Booij's Construction Morphology

Abdel-Haleem

2017

مجلة البحث العلمی فی الآداب

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Most of the Egyptian place names are derived from various languages that were spoken in Egypt centuries ago. These languages include Ancient Egyptian, Coptic, Greek, etc. The contact between Arabic, after the Islamic Advent, and these languages was essential in shaping the forms of the Egyptian place names. However, other places acquired their names after the Arab conquest of Egypt, which are similarly of interest to the present research. This paper investigates the sociomorphological alterations that some of the Egyptian place names have undergone to reach their currently used forms. For this purpose, the researcher uses the tools of the theory of Construction Morphology (CM), developed by Booij (2005), under the fabric of socio-morphology. CM tackles any linguistic unit as a "pairing of form and meaning" or a function related to that form. Hence, CM is considered one of the adequate means to conduct this analysis; because it deals with the various linguistic levels, i.e. phonology, syntax, morphology, and even pragmatics, on an equal basis. To meet the goals of the study, the selected forms are analyzed in order to detect any significant modifications that they have undergone. The results demonstrate that a large number of these names was subject to various morpho-phonological alterations in order to reach the currently used forms for different reasons. These include socially governed purposes, ease of articulation, and the influence of Coptic, which ceased to generate new forms or schemas. In addition, since schemas in CM are language specific, new ones had to be developed to account for the Arabic place names under analysis.Keywords: Egyptian place names, Contact Linguistics, Sociomorphology, word formation processes, Booij's Construction Morphology (CM), morphological schemas ‫ػػر(‬ ‫اٌثبِٓ‬ ‫اٌؼعظ‬ ٕٓٔ2 ‫اٌطبِص‬ ‫اٌدسء‬ ) List of Phonetic Symbols:

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Section: Ancient Egyptian Morphologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to Loprieno (1997), the alphabetical system of Coptic is drawn from Greek. Coptic has two major dialects i.e.…”

Section: Coptic and Arabicmentioning

confidence: 99%