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    Demotic (from Ancient Greek: δημοτικός dēmotikós, 'popular') is the ancient Egyptian script derived from northern forms of hieratic used in the Nile Delta...
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  • Demotiс Egyptian language was the state of the Egyptian language from the seventh century BC to the fifth century AD. The formation and development of...
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    Late Egyptian Demotic Egyptian Coptic The Egyptian language is conventionally grouped into six major chronological divisions: Archaic Egyptian (before...
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    Champollion and Thomas Young. Ancient Egyptian forms of writing, which included the hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic scripts, ceased to be understood in...
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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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    Ancient Egyptian literature was written with the Egyptian language from ancient Egypt's pharaonic period until the end of Roman domination. It represents...
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  • Coptic script (category Ancient Egyptian language)
    augmented by letters borrowed from the Egyptian Demotic. It was the first alphabetic script used for the Egyptian language. There are several Coptic alphabets...
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  • of the Greek language Demotic (Egyptian), an ancient Egyptian script and version of the language Chữ Nôm, the demotic script for writing Vietnamese All...
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    Afroasiatic 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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  • 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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    Hieratic (redirect from Egyptian hieratic)
    Ancient Egyptian and the principal script used to write that language from its development in the third millennium BCE until the rise of Demotic in the...
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    Rosetta Stone (category Ancient Egyptian stelas)
    dynasty of Egypt, on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes. The top and middle texts are in Ancient Egyptian using hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts, respectively...
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    of ancient Egyptian are Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian (Classical Egyptian), Late Egyptian, Demotic and Coptic. Egyptian writings do not show dialect...
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    rulers to speak the native language, Demotic Egyptian, is why Ancient Greek (i.e. Koine Greek) was used along with Late Egyptian on official court documents...
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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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    is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BCE (according to conventional Egyptian chronology) with the political...
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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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    Jean-François Champollion (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    suggest that modern Coptic was a degenerate form of the language found in the Egyptian demotic script, and he had correctly suggested the phonetic value...
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    to a body of papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt, written mostly in ancient Greek (but also in Old Coptic, Demotic, etc.), which each contain a number of...
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    Old Egyptian and Middle Egyptian, and Later Egyptian (1300 BCE-1300 CE), which is further subdivided into Late Egyptian, Demotic, and Coptic. Coptic is...
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  • Coptic language, the most recent stage of Egyptian written in mainly Greek alphabet with seven demotic letters, is today the liturgical language of the...
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    Cartouche (category Articles containing Ancient Egyptian-language text)
    sound changes), and the cartouche was essentially an expanded shen ring. Demotic script reduced the cartouche to a pair of brackets and a vertical line...
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    king represented in the Great Sphinx of Giza, the native Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, the Egyptian queen Tiye, and the Greek Ptolemaic queen Cleopatra VII...
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    The Late Period of ancient Egypt refers to the last flowering of native Egyptian rulers after the Third Intermediate Period in the 26th Saite Dynasty...
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    Amherst 63 (CoS 1.99) is an ancient Egyptian papyrus from the third century BC containing Aramaic texts in demotic Egyptian script. The 35 texts date to the...
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    composed in the demotic phase and script of the Egyptian language. It was focused on earlier stages of Egyptian history when Egyptians were independent...
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    beneath the modern coastal city of Abu Qir. The settlement's Egyptian name was written in Demotic as (pr-gwṱ, sometimes romanized Peguat or Pikuat). The Greeks...
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    called the Egyptian Empire, refers to ancient Egypt between the 16th century BC and the 11th century BC. This period of ancient Egyptian history covers...
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    of Egypt, Cambyses' reign saw the fiscal resources of traditional Egyptian temples diminished considerably. One decree, written on papyrus in demotic script...
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    Km and Km.t (Kemet) (hieroglyphs) (category Articles containing Ancient Egyptian-language text)
    (Upper Egypt, and Lower Egypt), and the common use of "Ta-Mer-t", and additionally uses of 'Horus of the Two Lands' .) In the Demotic (Egyptian) text of...
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