The Egyptian language is one of the oldest recorded languages known alongside Sumerian, it is related to the Berber and other Semitic languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.
Its first known records date back to the mid-3rd millennium BC during the old kingdom of Egypt in 3400 BC, it was in use in the form of demotic and until the 17th century in the middle ages in the form of Coptic.
The language was accompanied by hieroglyphs which became the official writing system.
The transformative history of the Egyptian language can be divided into six major chronological parts:
(Archaic Egyptian, old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian, Late Egyptian, Demotic, and Coptic).
1- Archaic Egyptian (Before 2600 BC)
It is the reconstructed language of the early dynastic and the late predynastic period. It also contains the earliest examples of Egyptian hieroglyphic writings on many works of art like Naqada II pottery vessels.
2- Old Egyptian (2600 – 2000 BC)
It became the official language of the old kingdom and the first intermediate period as it was used to write the pyramid texts which are the largest body of literature written in this language...