This is my own interpretation of Ancient Egyptian Language. The hardest part of reconstructing this beautiful language is the way Egyptians wrote Hieroglyphs, it only depicts consonants not vowels.
I just watched videos and read materials about semitic languages like Arabic, Hebrew etc, just to have an idea of it :)
The Egyptian language was spoken in ancient Egypt and was a branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Its attestation stretches over an extraordinarily long time, from the Old Egyptian stage (mid-3rd millennium BC, Old Kingdom of Egypt). Its earliest known complete written sentence has been dated to about 2690 BC, which makes it one of the oldest recorded languages known, along with Sumerian.
Its classical form is known as Middle Egyptian, the vernacular of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt which remained the literary language of Egypt until the Roman period. The spoken language evolved into Demotic by the time of Classical Antiquity, and finally into Coptic by the time of Christianisation. Spoken Coptic was almost extinct by the 17th century, but it remains in use as the liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.
Disclaimer: This is not 100% accurate.
Ancient Egyptian Text Reading: (Karnak Stela of Ahmose) egyptian mau | |
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