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==Structure==

==Structure==

The structure of Egyptian is similar to many other Afro-Asiatic languages.  Most words have a root of three consonants, although some have more or less.  Vowels are not written in Egyptian.  Egyptian, like many of its related languages, has single, dual, and plural forms of nouns, meaning a noun can be written three different ways signifying one thing, two things, and three or more things.  Like the Romance Languages and Irish Gaelic, Egyptian nouns are either masculine or feminine.  Egyptian’s basic word order is ‘Subject, Noun, Object.”  ‘The man opens the door’ would be ‘Opens the man the door’.

The structure of Egyptian is similar to many other Afro-Asiatic languages.  Most words have a root of three consonants, although some have more or less.   

 

Vowels are not written in Egyptian.   

 

Egyptian, like many of its related languages, has single, dual, and plural forms of nouns, meaning a noun can be written three different ways signifying one thing, two things, and three or more things.  Like the Romance Languages and Irish Gaelic, Egyptian nouns are either masculine or feminine.  Egyptian’s basic word order is ‘Subject, Noun, Object.”  ‘The man opens the door’ would be ‘Opens the man the door’.

When most people think of the Egyptian Language, they think of hieroglyphs, but not all Egyptian is written with glyphs.  While Archaic, Old, Middle, and Late Egyptian were written with hieroglyphs, Demotic was written with an alphabet similar to modern Arabic script, and Coptic was written with a modified form of the Greek alphabet.  

When most people think of the Egyptian Language, they think of hieroglyphs, but not all Egyptian is written with glyphs.  While Archaic, Old, Middle, and Late Egyptian were written with hieroglyphs, Demotic was written with an alphabet similar to modern Arabic script, and Coptic was written with a modified form of the Greek alphabet.  

 

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