# Claude Rilly

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{{short description|French linguist and archaeologist}}
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| occupation         = Linguist, Egyptologist, archaeologist
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| workplaces         = [French National Centre for Scientific Research](/source/French_National_Centre_for_Scientific_Research)
| main_interests     = [Meroitic](/source/Meroitic_language) and [Nilo-Saharan languages](/source/Nilo-Saharan_languages)
| notable_works      = ''Le méroïtique et sa famille linguistique'' (2010)
| notable_ideas      = [Northern Eastern Sudanic languages](/source/Northern_Eastern_Sudanic_languages)
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'''Claude Rilly''' (born November 4, 1959) is a French linguist, [Egyptologist](/source/Egyptologist), and archaeologist at the [French National Centre for Scientific Research](/source/French_National_Centre_for_Scientific_Research) who primarily specializes in [Meroitic](/source/Meroitic_language) and [Nilo-Saharan languages](/source/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](/source/%C3%89cole_pratique_des_hautes_%C3%A9tudes) since 2019.

He is also the Director of the French Archaeological Mission in [Sedeinga](/source/Sedeinga), [Sudan](/source/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](/source/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>

==References==
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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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