Old Egyptian Egyptian language
seal impression tomb of seth-peribsen, containing oldest known complete sentence in egyptian
the term archaic egyptian reserved earliest use of hieroglyphs, during late 4th 3rd millennia bc. @ earliest stage, around 3300 bc; hieroglyphs not developed writing system, being @ transitional stage of proto-writing; on time time leading 27th century bc, grammatical features such nisba formation can seen occur.
old egyptian dated oldest known complete sentence, including finite verb, found in tomb of seth-peribsen (dated c. 2690 bc). reads:
extensive texts appear 2600 bc. pyramid texts largest body of literature written in phase of language.
one of distinguishing characteristics tripling of ideograms, phonograms, , determinatives indicate plural. overall, not differ middle egyptian, classical stage of language, though based on different dialect.
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