# University of Chicago 2024: Claude Rilly: Meroitic Phonology, Syntax, and Linguistic Family

> Language Variation and Change workshop University of Chicago, 2024. 5 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Rilly's own recent summary of what is and…

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# Claude Rilly: Meroitic Phonology, Syntax, and Linguistic Family

Language Variation and Change workshop University of Chicago, 2024. _voices.uchicago.edu_.

Abstract of a 2024 talk: about 2,000 inscriptions from the 3rd century BC to the 5th century AD; signs read since Griffith but the language poorly known; Northern East Sudanic with Nubian, Nara, Taman and Nyima; phonology and nominal syntax well understood, verbal morphology in its infancy.

**Meroitic** TalkChecked against the original0

## What it's used for here

Rilly's own recent summary of what is and is not understood.

## Cited by on this site 5 records

[Nominal syntax is well understood; verbal morphology is in its infancy.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/meroitic/evidence/EVD0CVV03SR1WAP/nominal-syntax-is-well-understood-verbal-morphology-is-in)

Evidence

EVD

[Rilly's identification is the basis of the current understanding of syntax and is used by the field.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/meroitic/evidence/EVD0CVV01V80V2G/rillys-identification-is-the-basis-of-the-current)

Evidence

EVD

[Meroitic](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/meroitic)

The mystery article

MYS

[How much of Meroitic can be translated?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/meroitic/questions/QST0CVV00CC73S4/how-much-of-meroitic-can-be-translated)

Question

QST

[What language family does Meroitic belong to?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/meroitic/questions/QST0CVV004J766H/what-language-family-does-meroitic-belong-to)

Question

QST

## Cite it

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University of Chicago, L. V. a. C. w. (2024). Claude Rilly: Meroitic Phonology, Syntax, and Linguistic Family. voices.uchicago.edu. https://voices.uchicago.edu/lvc/2024/03/05/claude-rilly-cnrs-ephe-paris-sorbonne-meroitic-phonology-syntax-and-linguistic-family
```

[Read it free at voices.uchicago.edu](https://voices.uchicago.edu/lvc/2024/03/05/claude-rilly-cnrs-ephe-paris-sorbonne-meroitic-phonology-syntax-and-linguistic-family)

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**SRC** 0CVTZQTY2XRD

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Talk

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The publisher's

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29 Oct 2026, for editors

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