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The Meroitic Language and Writing System
Claude Rilly, Alex de Voogt, 2012. Cambridge University Press.
The standard introduction: the script (23 signs plus a word divider, cursive and hieroglyphic forms), phonology, grammar, the linguistic affiliation and the methods used on the corpus. Notes that Griffith deciphered the sign values from Egyptian and Meroitic parallels, that the vocabulary he could understand was limited to names, titles and places, and that more than 1,100 texts are catalogued in the REM.
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Rilly, C., & de Voogt, A. (2012). The Meroitic Language and Writing System. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511920028
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Rilly, Claude and Alex de Voogt. “The Meroitic Language and Writing System.” Cambridge University Press (2012). https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511920028.