Egyptian language
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egyptian-language-183-6883858
title:
Egyptian language
text:
The Egyptian language, or Ancient Egyptian, is an extinct branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages that was spoken in ancient Egypt. It is known today from a large corpus of surviving texts, which were made accessible to the modern world following the decipherment of the ancient Egyptian scripts in the early 19th century. Egyptian is one of the earliest known written languages, first recorded in the hieroglyphic script in the late 4th millennium BC. It is also the longest-attested human language, wi
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Extinct language family spoken in ancient Egypt
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_language
date created:
2002-03-31T13:55:49Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T19:24:21Z
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