Written Artefacts from the Maldives: 1,500 Years of Mixing Languages and Scripts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Practical Multilingualism
5. Written Artefacts from the Maldives: 1,500 Years of Mixing Languages and Scripts 13
6. A Journey Through the Multilingual Landscape of Greco-Roman and Late Antique Oxyrhynchus 41
7. Commemoration, Explication, and Obligation: The Baptismal Font of St Reinoldi in Dortmund 75
8. Multi-scriptural and Multilingual Inscriptions in Lan Na 111
9. Scholarly Multilingualism
10. On the Emergence and Development of Middle Babylonian Bilinguals 151
11. Vernacular Terms in Sinitic Texts: Multilingualism in Eighth-century Japanese Documents 169
12. Mixing Languages and Scripts in Tamil Inscriptions and Manuscripts 205
13. Sanskrit Prayers in a Theravada Kingdom: A Multilingual Siamese Grantha Manuscript from Munich 235
14. How to Spell Loanwords? Integration of Arabic Etymons in Bilingual Islamic Manuscripts of West Africa 255
15. Propagandistic Multilingualism
16. Mesopotamian Bilingual Royal Inscriptions from the Third Millennium BCE: Texts with a Primary and Secondary Context 309
17. Anatolian Theonyms in the Aramaic Version of the Letoon Trilingual 331
18. Multilingualism in the Epigraphic Culture of the Persianate World (Eleventh to Thirteenth Century) 347
19. Bilingual Inscriptions from India: Combining Arabic and Persian with Indic Languages 371
20. Contributors 439
21. General Index 443