How did the Ancient

Egyptians write their

Language ?
It is the major script, we can say it is the also the first type of writing was used by the
Ancient Egyptians, some early hieroglyphics were found written above objects date back
To 3000 BC and older.
The hieroglyphic script lasted for a very long time after the Ancient Egyptian Civilization and
the Greco-Roman Egypt. The last written text is at Isis temple at Philae Island at 395 AD
 Different stages of the Language

1- Old Egyptian
From dynast 01 to dynasty 08 (3150 BC – 2240 BC)
2- Middle Egyptian
From dynast 09 to dynasty 12 (2240 BC – 1778 BC)
3- Late Egyptian
From dynast 18 to dynasty 24 (1573 BC – 715 BC)
4- Demotic
From dynast 25 to the Roman time (715 BC – 470 AD)
5- Coptic
From 3rd Century AD to 16th Century
The Coptic language is written in the Greek Alphabet + 7 special characters derived
from Hieroglyphs.

1- Akhmimic (Akhmimy
2- Sahidic (Saa’idy)
3- Bohairic (Behery)
Directions of writings
From left to right (line)
From right to left (line)
From left to right (column)
From right to left (column)
 Symbols
1 sound, 2, 3 & 4 sounds
- Uniliteral - Unilateral
- Biliteral - Bilateral
- Triliteral - Trilateral
- Quadriliteral - Quadrilateral
1 sound symbols
‘’Alphabet’’
2 sounds symbols
3 sounds symbols
4 sounds symbols
 Sense signs
Or
Ideograms
In Greek Idea = form & Gramma = writing
 Sound signs
Or
Phonograms
In Greek Phone = Sound & Gramma = writing
 (M)

Preposition
- In (inside) *for places
- By means of / With *for tools
- From / Out of *for place
 (N)

Preposition
- Of (genitive)
Of Kemet

- To / For *for people

To you To me
 R

Preposition
- To / Towards (things, directions)
- in respect of
 Pn / Tn
Pen / Ten
This
Pen is masculine
Ten is feminine
They come after the noun
Before the nouns

Another man

Another woman
 There ‘’Adverb’’

Place / Places ‘noun’’

Thing/ Something (F)

Ptah
Name

To say ‘’verb’’

With / together with ‘’preposition’’

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