{"pk":4090,"title":"Language Contact","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Although language contact and multilingualism are universal phenomena, the topic has not been given due consideration in Egyptology. Language contact in ancient Egypt comprises a spectrum, in ascending order, of small-scale phenomena (loanwords, loan translations), through non-Egyptian texts in Egyptian script and the evidence for bilingualism and multilingualism, to the large-scale phenomena of new language forms resulting from language contact and phenomena of language convergence through a sprachbund situation.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Arts and Humanities"}],"section":"Language, Text and Writing","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1px3x3fq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Thomas","middle_name":"","last_name":"Schneider","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of British Columbia, Canada","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2008-04-08T21:01:13Z","date_accepted":"2008-04-08T21:01:13Z","date_published":"2022-03-31T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/nelc_uee/article/4090/galley/2618/download/"}]}