Language/Egyptian-ancient
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Facts about Egyptian (Ancient)[edit | edit source]
Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt.
Hieroglyphs combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with a total of some 1,000 distinct characters.
Cursive hieroglyphs were used for religious literature on papyrus and wood.
The later hieratic and demotic Egyptian scripts were derived from hieroglyphic writing, as was the Proto-Sinaitic script that later evolved into the Phoenician alphabet.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs
- Language code (ISO 639-3):
egy
- Autonyms (how to write "Egyptian (Ancient)" in Egyptian (Ancient)):
𓂋𓏺𓈖 𓆎𓅓𓏏𓊖
Ancient Egyptian Dictionaries[edit | edit source]
• Hieroglyphs.net: Egyptian-English dictionary, by Paul Sciortino
• Hierogl: Egyptian-French dictionary, after the Raymond Faulkner's Concise dictionary of Middle Egyptian (1962)
• Projet Rosette: Egyptian-French dictionary, after the Raymond Faulkner's dictionary
• Dictionary of Middle Egyptian by Paul Dickson (2006) (Gardiner list)
• Concise dictionary of Middle Egyptian by Raymond Faulkner (1988)
• Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (1920) A-Sun & Sur-T
• Hieroglyphic vocabulary to the Theban recension of the Book of the Dead, by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (1911)
• Egyptian hieroglyphics, being an attempt to explain their nature, origin and meaning, by Samuel Sharpe (1861)
• Lexique hiéroglyphique: Hieroglyphic Egyptian-French dictionary, by Roger Lambert (1925)
• Dictionnaire égyptien en écriture hiéroglyphique: Egyptian dictionary in Hieroglyphic script, by Jean-François Champollion (1843)
• Wörterbuch der Ägyptischen Sprache: Hieroglyphic Egyptian-German dictionary, by Adolf Erman & Hermann Grapow (1921): I & II - III - IV - V - VI - VII
• Ägyptisches Handwörterbuch (1921)
• Hieroglyphisch-demotisches Wörterbuch: Hieroglyphic-demotic dictionary, by Henrich Brugsch (1882): I & II - III - IV - V - VI - VII
• The Demotic dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (2001)
• Demotische Wortliste: Demotic Egyptian-German dictionary