Late Egyptian language

Late Egyptian (own name has not survived)
Period	approx. 800–1 BC Chr.
Formerly spoken in	Old Egypt
Linguistic classification	Afro-Asian Egyptian Late Egyptian
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	egy (Egyptian language)

The term Spätägyptisch (not to be confused with English Late Egyptian , which corresponds to New Egyptian in German ) is a collective term in Egyptology for written forms of Egyptian in the 1st millennium BC. BC, which are not part of the demotic , but fall back on older levels of the Egyptian. This includes in particular Ptolemaic Egyptian and the language of the BM 10808 papyrus . The late Egyptian texts did not form a complete linguistic unit and did not correspond to any real spoken language.

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 .
• Jürgen Osing: The late Egyptian papyrus BM 10808 . ( Egyptological Treatises , Volume 33). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1976 ISBN 3-447-01726-0 (contains a translation, commentary, representation of the language and spelling and a photograph) .
• 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 .

Remarks

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