About Claude Rilly
Born 1959. Claude Rilly is a French egyptologist and linguist.
Claude Rilly (born November 4, 1959) is a French linguist, Egyptologist, and archaeologist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research who primarily specializes in Meroitic and Nilo-Saharan languages. He is professor at the École pratique des hautes études since 2019.
He is also the Director of the French Archaeological Mission in Sedeinga, Sudan.
In 2003, he received a PhD in Egyptology and Linguistics. His doctoral advisor was Pascal Vernus.
Linguistics Rilly proposed the Northern Eastern Sudanic languages in 2010.
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French linguist and archaeologist
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Claude Rilly was born on 4 November 1959.
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