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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.
- Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs (/ ˈ h aɪ r ə ˌ ɡ l ɪ f s /, / ˈ h aɪ r...
- Ancient Egypt
The phases of ancient Egyptian are Old Egyptian, Middle...
- Languages of Egypt
Other Egyptian languages (also known as Copto-Egyptian)...
- Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs (/ ˈ h aɪ r ə ˌ ɡ l ɪ f s /, / ˈ h aɪ r oʊ ˌ ɡ l ɪ f s /) were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined logographic , syllabic and alphabetic elements, with more than 100 distinct characters.
- Egyptian Hieroglyphs
- Egyptian language
- right-to-left script, left-to-right
- (Proto-writing)Egyptian hieroglyphs
Other Egyptian languages (also known as Copto-Egyptian) consist of ancient Egyptian and Coptic, and form a separate branch among the family of Afro-Asiatic languages. The Egyptian language is among the first written languages, and is known from hieroglyphic inscriptions preserved on monuments and sheets of papyrus.
- Egyptian Arabic (98%), (de facto lingua franca)
The phases of ancient Egyptian are Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian (Classical Egyptian), Late Egyptian, Demotic and Coptic. Egyptian writings do not show dialect differences before Coptic, but it was probably spoken in regional dialects around Memphis and later Thebes.
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.
- Revitalisation efforts have been taking place, since the 19th century
- Afro-Asiatic, Egyptian
- Upper? †, Lower? †, Coptic dialects †
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.
Ancient Egypt - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Contents. hide. Beginning. History. Government. Language and writing. Writing. Hieroglyphics. Hieratic script. Demotic script. Coptic script. Literature. Religion. Agriculture. Medicine. Pyramids. Other achievements. Timeline. Predynastic. Dynastic. Related pages. References.
