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The Egyptian language, or Ancient Egyptian (r n km.t), is an extinct branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages that was spoken in ancient Egypt. It is known today from a large corpus of surviving texts, which were made accessible to the modern world following the decipherment of the ancient Egyptian scripts in the early 19th century.
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The development of Egyptian as a written language is a history of its various written standards, in relation to spheres of written performance (see Chapter 47 in this volume) and possibly reflecting diverse geographical and social varieties.
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Vol. I & II, By Leonard H. Lesko · 2002, Download Free PDF, Egyptology Archive - Knowledge Flows Freely.
The Egyptian language was an Afroasiatic language that was spoken in Ancient Egypt. It has been written 5000 years, which makes it one of the oldest written languages known today. The Coptic language is the modern form of the Egyptian language. The Egyptian language changed into it over time.
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Old Coptic is the earliest stage of Coptic writing, a form of late Egyptian written in Coptic script, a variant of the Greek alphabet. It "is an analytical category … utilised by scholars to refer to a particular group of sources" and not a language, dialect or singular writing system.
