{{short description|French linguist and archaeologist}} {{Infobox academic | name = Claude Rilly | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|11|04}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Linguist, Egyptologist, archaeologist | spouse = | alma_mater = | influences = | workplaces = French National Centre for Scientific Research | main_interests = Meroitic and Nilo-Saharan languages | notable_works = ''Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique'' (2010) | notable_ideas = Northern Eastern Sudanic languages | influenced = | signature = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''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.<ref>Claude Rilly (2011). Recent Research on Meroitic, the Ancient Language of Sudan. http://www.ityopis.org/Issues-1_files/ITYOPIS-I-Rilly.pdf. Under the sub-heading - The original cradle of Proto-NES: chronological and palaeoclimatic issues. p. 18</ref><ref>Claude Rilly (2007). La langue du royaume de Méroé, Un panorama de la plus ancienne culture écrite d’Afrique subsaharienne, Paris: Champion (Bibliothèque de l’École pratique des hautes études, Sciences historiques et philologiques, t. 344)</ref><ref>Claude Rilly (2004). [http://www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/projets/clhass/PageWeb/ressources/Isolats/Meroitic%20Rilly%202004.pdf The linguistic position of Meroitic] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923213222/http://www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/projets/clhass/PageWeb/ressources/Isolats/Meroitic%20Rilly%202004.pdf |date=2015-09-23 }}. p. 1</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique|last=Rilly|first=Claude|publisher=Peeters|year=2010|isbn=978-90-429-2237-2|location=|pages=401|language=fr}}</ref>
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==External links== *''[https://livre.fnac.com/a1969424/Claude-Rilly-La-langue-du-royaume-de-Meroe La langue du royaume de Méroé]'' (in French)
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