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  1. Egyptian languages and linguistics - Reddit

    A place for all things related to the ancient Egyptian languages. All stages: Old, Middle, Late, Demotic, and Coptic. All scripts: Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, Abnormal ...

  2. What was the language spoken in Ancient Egypt and what did it

    Aug 24, 2015 · Whether or not it sounds like ancient Egyptians would have spoken is a tricky question. It does have some similarities to other regional languages like Arabic, Hebrew, or …

  3. When did Egyptian language die? : r/AskHistorians - Reddit

    Jan 6, 2024 · The Coptic language flourished in both spoken and written forms throughout the rest of the period of Roman rule over Egypt. Then, between 639 and 642 CE, the Rashidun …

  4. Is the ancient Egyptian spoken in ``The Mummy`` accurate? : r

    In the newer one, they made a passable attempt at reconstructing Late Egyptian pronunciation, but then they dropped the ball pretty spectacularly. The lady mummy calls TC "satapai" …

  5. How accurate is the Egyptian-language dialog in The Mummy

    The Hellenistic cartouches of Ptolemies and Cleopatra spell out all the vowels because they're phonetically spelling Greek names in Egyptian hieroglyph lettering. They didn't do that with …

  6. The phonetic reconstruction of ancient Egyptian languages : r

    Oct 18, 2023 · The reconstruction of the pronunciation of ancient Egyptian is a relatively recent and complicated field of study. The ancient Egyptians did not record vowels, so scholarly …

  7. Can anyone in Egypt speak or read Egyptian? : r/Egypt - Reddit

    May 22, 2020 · Side note: "Egyptian" is ambiguous in this context because it can (informally) refer to different things; there is no language or writing system called "Egyptian" (AFAIK).

  8. 𓂋𓏺𓈖 𓆎𓅓𓏏𓊖 Egyptian language : r/wikipedia - Reddit

    Jan 18, 2023 · The Egyptian language or Ancient Egyptian (𓂋𓏺𓈖 𓆎𓅓𓏏𓊖 r n km.t) is a dead Afro-Asiatic language that was spoken in ancient Egypt. It is known today from a large corpus …

  9. Any phonetic/lignuistic experts here? I wanted to verify if ... - Reddit

    Nov 30, 2014 · Some of those Egyptian words are wrong, particularly the names at the end. Also, everything u/JoshfromNazareth said. There is certainly overlap because Cushitic and Egyptian …

  10. Why do semitic languages refer to egypt as Masr yet the ancient ...

    Mar 28, 2022 · In Egyptian Arabic, the name is pronounced as “Maṣr.” The name “Misr” is a cognate from words such as “Mitzráyim” in the Hebrew language while in Akkadian, Egypt was …