(Ebook) Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyph as the Pictorial Scrutiny of Modern Linguistics by Md. Ridwanur Rahman ISBN 9789843543219, 9843543211

(Ebook) Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyph as the Pictorial Scrutiny of Modern Linguistics by Md. Ridwanur Rahman ISBN 9789843543219, 9843543211

This book deals with the basic linguistic principles of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs in keeping with the various branches of modern linguistics. Moreover, a quantity of linguistic procedures of Egyptian hieroglyphs have been scrutinized and described concisely in this book. In fact, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs have been analyzed here as the assets of language evolution, historical decipherment, general grammar, phonetics & phonology, translation studies, semantics, morphology, syntax, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics, taken as a whole. Firstly, different historical processes of deciphering hieroglyphs have been portrayed. Secondly, a variety of evolutionary links of languages through the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs have been presented. Thirdly, the IPA symbols have been applied in the hieroglyphic signs in order to demonstrate the phonetic values. Fourthly, the morphological and syntactic structures of the hieroglyphic expressions have been illustrated. Fifthly, the terms of semantics in hieroglyphic words have been exemplified. Sixthly, the tactics of reading and translation of hieroglyphs have been explained. Seventhly and finally, in conformity with the sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic points of view, the new theories in Egyptian hieroglyphs have been established.