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From Pharaoh's lips : ancient Egyptian language in the Arabic of today /
From the most distant past to the modern day, some things never change-including words. The modern Egyptian Arabic dialect is one of the most distinctive in the Arabic-speaking world precisely because of its illustrious heritage from the country's ancient past. Ahmad Abdel-Hamid Youssef spends...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic Coptic Ancient Egyptian |
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Cairo ; New York :
American University in Cairo Press,
[2003]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | From the most distant past to the modern day, some things never change-including words. The modern Egyptian Arabic dialect is one of the most distinctive in the Arabic-speaking world precisely because of its illustrious heritage from the country's ancient past. Ahmad Abdel-Hamid Youssef spends a day in the Egyptian countryside, taking note of the many expressions that once fell from the lips of the ancient Egyptians and that continue to be heard on the tongues of the modern Egyptians in their everyday speech. His charming tale of Bayoumi, a farmer, his wife Sawsan, and their baby provides the. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (131 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-131). |
| ISBN: | 9781617974762 1617974765 9781617972287 1617972282 |