Studies in Multilingualism, Lingua Franca and Lingua Sacra

List of ContributorsPreface (Markham J. Geller and Jens Braarvig)Introduction (Markham J. Geller and Jens Braarvig)Part I: General ReflectionsEmpires and their Languages: Reflections on the History and the Linguistics of Lingua Franca and Lingua Sacra (Reinier Salverda)Dependent Languages (Jens Braarvig)Part II: EuropeLehnübersetzung und Lehnbedeutung vs. Lehnwort: Zu den Entlehnungen aus dem Lateinischen und Französischen in das mittelalterliche Deutsch (Kurt Gärtner)Konrad of Megenberg: German Terminologies and Expressions as Created on Latin Models (Kathrin Chlench-Priber)What Language Does God Speak? (Florentina Badalanova Geller)Islamic Mystical Poetry and Alevi Rhapsodes From the Village of Sevar, Bulgaria (Florentina Badalanova Geller)Learning Arabic and Learned Bilingualism in Early Modern England: The Case of John Pell (Daniel Andersson)Part III: Ancient Near EastSumerian in the Middle Assyrian Period (Klaus Wagensonner)The Concept of the Semitic Root in Akkadian Lexicography (Markham J. Geller)Multilingualism in the Elamite Kingdoms and the Achaemenid Empire (Jan Tavernier)Diplomatic Multilingualism in the Middle East, Past and Present: Multilingualism, Linguae Francae and the Global History of Religious and Scientific Concepts (Lutz Edzard)Some Observations on Multilingualism in Graeco-Roman Egypt (Alexandra von Lieven)Part IV: India and Central AsiaIndo-Iranian Sacred Texts and Sacrificial Practices: Structures of Common Heritage (Speech and Performance in the Veda and Avesta, III) (Velizar Sadovski)Aspects of Multilingualism in Turfan as Seen in Manichaean Texts (Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst)Part V: ChinaMultilingualism and Lingua Franca in the Ancient Chinese World (William G. Boltz)The Imprint of Buddhist Sanskrit on Chinese and Tibetan: Some Lexical Ontologies and Translation Strategies in the Tang Dynasty (Jens Braarvig)Classical Chinese as Lingua Franca in East Asia in the First to Second Millennia CE: Focusing on the Linguistic Situation in Traditional Korea (Vladimir Tikhonov)Part VI: The AmericasMultilingualism and Lingua Francae of Indigenous Civilizations of America (Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo)