11th Century Readers
4th Century BCE
A01=J. E. Wansborough
Ab Initio Character
Akkadian Tablets
ancient international relations language
Archival Residue
Archival Translations
Author_J. E. Wansborough
Bronze Age
Category=CBG
Category=GTM
Chancery Documents
chancery documents analysis
Chancery Language
Cuneiform Tradition
Date Formula
diplomatic language
Double Entry
Double Entry Bookkeeping
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eq_dictionaries-language-reference
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eq_isMigrated=2
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Hala Sultan Tekke
historical linguistics
intercultural communication
Interlingual Identification
IOI
language contact studies
Le Ry
Lexical Loans
Lingua Franca
Matres Lectionis
Mediterranean trade networks
R I Fi
Rhumb Lines
Substrate Phenomena
Ti Ti
West Semitic
Product details
- ISBN 9780700703098
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 14 Oct 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The subject of this study is the language of commerce and diplomacy during the period from 1500 BCE to 1500 CE. Based on texts of chancery provenance, its aim is the identification of a linguistic sub-system that effected and informed the major channel of international relations. The standard procedures of contact and exchange generated a format that facilitated inter-lingual transfer of concepts and terms. Lingua Franca refers to the several natural languages that served as vehicle in the transfer, but also to the format itself.
