Late Egyptian

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Late Egyptian is a later stage of the ancient Egyptian language that served as a linguistic bridge between Middle Egyptian and the Coptic language.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Late Egyptian canonical 13

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language variety
stage of the Egyptian language
approximateEndDate c. 700 BCE
approximateStartDate c. 1350 BCE
country Ancient Egypt
linked to: Pharaonic Egypt
developedFrom Middle Egyptian
documentedIn Papyrus Anastasi I
Papyrus Anastasi II
Papyrus Anastasi III
linked to: Papyrus Anastasi II

Papyrus Anastasi IV
The Contendings of Horus and Seth
The Report of Wenamun
The Tale of the Two Brothers
era Ramesside period
follows Middle Egyptian
hasCaseSystem reduced nominal case distinctions
hasFeature changes in demonstratives
changes in pronoun system
increased use of analytic verb forms
phonological developments toward Coptic
significant grammatical changes from Middle Egyptian
hasWordOrder tendency toward verb–subject–object
influenced Coptic language
Demotic Egyptian
linked to: Demotic script
ISO639-3 egy
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
languageSubfamily Egyptian
partOf Egyptian language
precedes Coptic language
Demotic Egyptian
linked to: Demotic script
region Nile Valley
role administrative language
literary language
vernacular language of the New Kingdom
scriptDirection right-to-left
standardizedDuring 19th Dynasty of Egypt
20th Dynasty of Egypt
timePeriod New Kingdom of Egypt
transitionRole linguistic bridge between Middle Egyptian and Coptic
usedAlongside Middle Egyptian (as a classical written language)
linked to: Middle Egyptian
usedFor administrative documents
letters
literary texts
religious texts
usedIn Ancient Egypt
linked to: Pharaonic Egypt
writingSystem Egyptian hieratic script
Egyptian hieroglyphs

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Coptic language historicalPeriod Late Egyptian
Coptic language developedFrom Late Egyptian
Egyptian hieroglyphs languageWritten Late Egyptian
Egyptian language family hasPart Late Egyptian
Egyptian language family hasStage Late Egyptian
Ancient Egyptian hasWritingStage Late Egyptian
Saite Dynasty language Late Egyptian
20th Dynasty of Egypt language Late Egyptian
Bohairic Coptic developedFrom Late Egyptian
Fayyumic Coptic developedFrom Late Egyptian
Panopolis region languageUsed Late Egyptian
Middle Egyptian precedes Late Egyptian
Setnakhte languageOfInscriptions Late Egyptian