'Is There Not One Among You Who Understands Egyptian?': The Late Egyptian Language: Structure of Its Grammar

by Helmut Satzinger

Late Egyptian -- the vernacular idiom of the time of the Ramesside pharaohs (14th through 12th century BCE) -- is adistinct episode in the history of the Egyptian-Coptic language. It is a vivid, fresh idiom, compared with the time-honored Classical Egyptian language of the hieroglyphic texts. The vocabulary used is to a large extent new, it is pronounced differently from the traditional language, and it is spelled in a characteristic way. The idiom...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906137676
• ISBN13: 9781906137670
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Golden House Publications
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.7"