Syllabus
The outline of the course:1. General overview - area, dating, history, nations.2. Scripts - types of scripts and carriers, differences, advantages and disanvantages from lignusitic point of view.3. Langugaes of Asia Minor: Anatolian4. Hurrian, Urartian5. Classical Armenian6. Early Georgian; Phrygian7. Sumerian8. Elamite9. Akkadian and Eblaite9. Ugaritic10. Hebrew, Phoenician, Punic11. Canaanite dialects, Aramaic12. Old Persian13. Excurs: Reconstructed ancient langugaes
Annotation
The subject Languages of the Ancient Near East introduces the language situation of Asia Minor and its neighboring areas in antiquity. We will be dealing with the oldest texts till up to the first century AD. You will be introduced to the scripts, genres, language classification and basics of morphology and syntax of the languages. Language contact and sociolinguistic analysis are natural parts of the lectures. The outline of the course:
1. General overview - area, dating, history, nations.
2. Scripts - types of scripts and carriers, differences, advantages and disanvantages from lignusitic point of view.
3. Langugaes of Asia Minor: Anatolian
4. Hurrian, Urartian
5. Classical Armenian
6. Early Georgian; Phrygian
7. Sumerian
8. Elamite
9. Akkadian and Eblaite
9. Ugaritic
10. Hebrew, Phoenician, Punic
11. Canaanite dialects, Aramaic
12. Old Persian
13. Excurs: Reconstructed ancient langugaes