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20 Σεπ 2024 · Egyptian language, extinct language of the Nile valley whose ancient form is known especially for its logographic writing, known as hieroglyphics. It constitutes a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language phylum.
The Egyptian language, or Ancient Egyptian (r n kmt; [1] [note 3] "speech of Egypt") 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 ...
2 Ιουλ 2015 · The Egyptian hieroglyphic script was one of the writing systems used by ancient Egyptians to represent their language. Because of their pictorial elegance, Herodotus and other important Greeks believed that Egyptian Hieroglyphs were something sacred, so they referred to them as 'holy writing'.
9 Ιουν 2015 · The history of the Egyptian language is both a linguistic and a cultural one. Considerable synchronic variation can be observed in the record, reflecting the various high-cultural and social settings and determinations of written performance in ancient Egypt at various times.
Egyptian is the ancient and original language of Egypt. It belongs to the language family known as Afroasiatic or Hamito-Semitic, and is related to both of that family’s branches: North African (or Hamitic) languages such as Berber and Hausa; and Asiatic (or Semitic) languages such as Arabic, Ethiopic, and Hebrew.
Ancient Egyptian represents an autonomous branch in the Afroasiatic phylum, alongside the Semitic (for example Akkadian, Ge'ez, Arabic), Berber, Cushitic (for example Somali, Bedja), Chadic (for example Hausa), and perhaps Omotic groups.
This book, the first of its kind, examines how the phonology and grammar of the ancient Egyptian language changed over more than three thousand years of its history, from the first appearance of written documents, c. 3250 bc, to the Coptic dialects of the second century ad and later.
