Ptolemaic Egyptian

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ptolemaic Egyptian
(own name has not survived)
Period approx. 300–0 BC Chr.

Formerly spoken in

Old Egypt
Linguistic
classification
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

-

ISO 639 -2

egy (Egyptian language)

The Ptolemaic Egyptian is a form of the Egyptian language , which in the last centuries BC, under the rule of the Ptolemies was used, sacred exclusively for writing texts. The grammar and lexicon are based on much older forms of Egyptian, especially Middle Egyptian , which was used as a spoken language as early as the middle of the 2nd millennium BC. Was extinct; Ptolemaic has little in common with the spoken language of that time, the demotic . Egyptian hieroglyphs were used for writing , the writing system of which in Ptolemaic texts has many peculiarities. In particular, the number of hieroglyphs used multiplied from around 700 in the Middle Kingdom to several thousand.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The ISO and SIL codes refer to all ancient Egyptian languages, not just to Ptolemaic Egyptian.

literature

  • Dieter Kurth: Introduction to Ptolemaic. A grammar with a list of characters and exercises, part 1 . Backe-Verlag, Hützel 2007 ISBN 978-3-9810869-1-1
  • Christian Leitz: Source texts on the Egyptian religion. Vol. I. The temple inscriptions of the Greco-Roman period. Introductions and source texts on Egyptology. Vol. 2.1 Münster 2004. ISBN 3-8258-7340-4 (Chrestomathy and list of symbols in Ptolemaic)
  • Christian Leitz (Ed.): Short bibliography on the translated temple texts of the Greco-Roman times (PDF; 2.2 MB). 4th edition. IFAO, Cairo 2008. ISBN 2-7247-0328-6
  • Hermann Junker: Grammar of the Dendera texts . Leipzig 1906
  • Penelope Wilson: A Ptolemaic lexikon: a lexicographical study of the texts in the Temple of Edfu. Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta, 78. Peeters, Leuven 1997 ISBN 90-6831-933-7