New York, USA

Cambridge University Press

ISBN 0-521-443849

Ancient Egyptian

A linguistic introduction
by
Antonio Loprieno

This book traces the language from Old Egyptian of the 3rd millennium BCE to the Classical period of the Middle Kingdom (referred to in this book as existing between 2000-1750 BCE), and finally culminating with the Late Middle Egyptian of religious texts and the emerging with the New Kingdom (referred to here as being 1500-1000 BCE).

There is also a discussion of cursive hieroglyphic systems later to be know as Hieratic and Demotic.

Professor Loprieno also compares the genetic connections of the Egyptian scripts with the Afroasiatic family. He looks at the Semitic languages (Akkadian, Arabic, and Hebrew) and their relation ships to their Egyptian origins.