Languages of the Ancient Near East - ASYRN3028E

• Title: Jazyky starověkého Předního východu
• Guaranteed by: International Office (21-ZO)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: yes
• Virtual mobility / capacity: yes / 20
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: combined
• Teaching methods: combined
• Is provided by: ASYRN30028
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Dita Frantíková, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Lenka Kristenová (12.02.2024)

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

Course completion requirements

Last update: Mgr. Lenka Kristenová (12.02.2024)

The course can be acomplished either by pasing two written tests (one in the 8th week of the semester and one final test) or by oral exam following the final lecture.

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Lenka Kristenová (12.02.2024)

Literature:

Woodard, R. G., The Ancient Languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Aksum, Cambridge 2008.

Woodard, R. G., The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia, Cambridge 2008.

Zemánek, P. et al., Jazyky starého Orientu, Praha 2010.

Charvát, P., On People, Signs and States. Spotlights on Sumerian Society, c. 3500-2500 B.C., Praha 1998.

Oppenheim, A. L., Starověká Mezopotámie, Praha 2001.

Petráček, K., Úvod do hamitosemitské (afroasijské) jazykovědy, I-II, Praha 1989.

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Lenka Kristenová (12.02.2024)

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