Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs Alphabet
Egyptian hieroglyphs were a formal writing system used by the
ancient Egyptians that contained a combination of logographic and
alphabetic. Egyptians used cursive hieroglyphs for religious literature
on papyrus and wood. Variations less formal writing, called hieratic
and demotic, are technically not hieroglyphs.
Ancient Egyptian language is part of the Afro-Asiatic group of languages and is related to Berber and Semitic . The language survived until the 5th century AD in the form of Demotic and until the Middle Ages in the form of Coptic. Thus it had a lifespan of over four millennia. Egyptian is one of the oldest recorded languages known.Written records of the ancient Egyptian language have been dated from about 3200 BC. see Ancient Egyptian Writing.
Ancient Egyptian language is part of the Afro-Asiatic group of languages and is related to Berber and Semitic . The language survived until the 5th century AD in the form of Demotic and until the Middle Ages in the form of Coptic. Thus it had a lifespan of over four millennia. Egyptian is one of the oldest recorded languages known.Written records of the ancient Egyptian language have been dated from about 3200 BC. see Ancient Egyptian Writing.
Egyptian Alphabet Today
The most widely spoken language in Egypt is Egyptian Arabic , which is part of the Arabic languages Semitic branch of the family of Afro-Asiatic languages. From the spoken Arabic brought to Egypt during the seventh century AD Muslim conquest.
Its development has been influenced mainly by indigenous copto-Egyptian language of pre-Islamic Egypt, and later by other languages such as Turkish. It is the national language of Egypt, spoken by over 100 million people. It is also one of the most common varieties and studied Arabic.
Coptic, a direct descendant of the ancient Egyptian language which was once written in Egyptian hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic and scripts, is used by the Coptic Orthodox Church. The Coptic alphabet is a modified form of the Greek alphabet, with some letters from demotic.
Coptic is still used as a liturgical language in the Coptic
Church. The official language of Egypt is Arabic standard and is
used in most media. English and French are also widely spoken and used
in business.