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    Coptic letters. The Egyptian language, or Ancient Egyptian (r n kmt; "speech of Egypt") is an extinct branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages that was spoken...
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    Egyptian Arabic, locally known as Colloquial Egyptian (Arabic: العاميه المصريه) [el.ʕæmˈmejjæ l.mɑsˤˈɾejjɑ]), or simply Masri (also Masry, lit. 'Egyptian')...
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  • Demotiс Egyptian language was the state of the Egyptian language used in the New Kingdom of Egypt and Third Intermediate Period of Egypt. The formation...
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    Egyptians speak a continuum of dialects. The predominant dialect in Egypt is Egyptian Colloquial Arabic or Masri/Masry (مصرى Egyptian), which is the vernacular...
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    Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs (/ˈhaɪroʊˌɡlɪfs/ HY-roh-glifs) were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs...
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    Afroasiatic extinct language. It is a group of closely related Egyptian dialects, representing the most recent developments of the Egyptian language, and historically...
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    those of shorthand for various languages including Hebrew, Demotic (Egyptian), Hieratic (Egyptian), Coptic (Egyptian), Mayan/Olmec, and Irish ogham ciphers...
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  • Egyptology, transliteration of Ancient Egyptian is the process of converting (or mapping) texts written as Egyptian language symbols to alphabetic symbols representing...
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    in the study of the Demotic stage of Egyptian script are known as Demotists. Transliteration of Ancient Egyptian Hans Dieter Betz (1992). The Greek Magical...
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    most recent stage of the ancient Egyptian language and is still used in prayers along with Egyptian Arabic. Egyptians have received several names: 𓂋𓍿𓀂𓁐𓏥𓈖𓆎𓅓𓏏𓊖...
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  • quality uncertain) but became e by Late Egyptian.[citation needed] Egyptian language Egyptian mathematics "Egyptian numerals". MacTutor - School of Mathematics...
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    community in Egypt. Although there are no official statistics on the number of deaf people or the number of people who use Egyptian Sign Language as their...
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  • Copts, the ethnic Egyptian Christian minority Coptic language or Coptic Egyptian, the latest stage of the Egyptian language, spoken in Egypt until the 17th...
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    of Cushitic languages in the early 20th century. The Egyptian branch consists of a single language, Egyptian (often called "Ancient Egyptian"), which was...
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  • the Egyptian vernacular. Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz was the first Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Many Egyptian books...
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    modern-day Egypt. Ancient Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3100 BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology)...
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    elements in Egyptian, such as particles and auxiliary verbs, that did not exist in Coptic, and he argued that the sounds of the Egyptian language were similar...
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    (/hɔːrəs/), also known as Hor (/hɔːr/) in Ancient Egyptian, is one of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities who served many functions, most notably...
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    French language education in Egypt has been present since the 19th century when French was the lingua franca of the Egyptian elite. Since then, it has...
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  • branches (3rd millennium BC for Egyptian and Semitic, 19th and 20th centuries for many Chadic, Cushitic, and Omotic languages) mean that determining sound...
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    and monuments, giving insight into the ancient Egyptian afterlife beliefs. The ancient Egyptian language had no word for "art". Artworks served an essentially...
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    evil. The reformed Egyptian calendar continues to be used in Egypt as the Coptic calendar of the Egyptian Church and by the Egyptian populace at large...
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    formerly belonging to the Egyptian monarchy. The division between the rural life of the villages, where the Egyptian language was spoken, and the metropolis...
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  • "district") was a territorial division in ancient Egypt. Each nome was ruled by a nomarch (Ancient Egyptian: ḥrj tp ꜥꜣ, "Great Chief"). The number of nomes...
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    Pharaoh (redirect from Egyptian pharaohs)
    in official Egyptian narratives.[citation needed] The title is reconstructed to have been pronounced *[parʕoʔ] in the Late Egyptian language, from which...
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    Ramesses II (/ˈræməsiːz, ˈræmsiːz, ˈræmziːz/; Ancient Egyptian: rꜥ-ms-sw, Rīꜥa-masē-sə, Ancient Egyptian pronunciation: [ɾiːʕamaˈseːsə]; c. 1303 BC – 1213...
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    speaking Cushitic languages to the north in Egypt and Sudan, and to the south in Kenya and Tanzania. As of 2012, the Cushitic languages with over one million...
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    traditional labor roles. Egyptian texts refer to words 'bꜣk' and 'ḥm' that mean laborer or servant. Some Egyptian language refers to slave-like people...
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    In Egyptian mythology, the Ogdoad (Ancient Greek: ὀγδοάς "the Eightfold"; Ancient Egyptian: ḫmnyw, a plural nisba of ḫmnw "eight") were eight primordial...
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    7th century. Egyptian Greek adopted many loanwords from Egyptian language; there was a great deal of intracommunity bilingualism in Egypt. The following...
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