Claude Rilly

{{short description|French linguist and archaeologist}}

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| nationality = French

| occupation = Linguist, Egyptologist, archaeologist

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| 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

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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.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. 18Claude 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)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 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.