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Old Egyptian is the stage of the Egyptian language
Egyptian language

Egyptian is a branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages language family along with the Chadic languages, Berber languages, Semitic languages, Cushitic languages and possibly Omotic languages languages....
 spoken from 2600 BC to 2000 BC during the Old Kingdom
Old Kingdom

The Old Kingdom is the name commonly given to that period in the 3rd millennium BCE when Ancient Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization in complexity and achievement ? this was the first of three so-called "Kingdom" periods, which mark the high points of civilization in the lower Nile Valley ....
 and First Intermediate Period. The Pyramid Texts
Pyramid Texts

The Pyramid Texts are a collection of Ancient Egypt religious text from the time of the Old Kingdom. The pyramid texts are the oldest known religious texts in the world....
 are the largest body of literature written in this phase of the language. Tomb walls of elite Egyptians
Egyptians

Egyptians is the name of the nationality and Mediterranean North African ethnic group native to Egypt.Egyptian identity is closely tied to the Geography of Egypt, dominated by the lower Nile Valley, the small strip of cultivable land stretching from the Cataracts of the Nile to the Mediterranean Sea and enclosed by desert both to the Easte...
 from this period bear autobiographical writings representing Old Egyptian. One of its distinguishing characteristics is the tripling of ideogram
Ideogram

An ideogram or ideograph is a graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept. They can be a straighforward pictogram, or a more abstract symbol that is comprehensible only on the basis of prior convention....
s, phonograms, and determinative
Determinative

A determinative, also known as a taxogram or semagram, is an ideogram used to mark semantics categories of words in logographic scripts....
s to indicate the plural.






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Old Egyptian is the stage of the Egyptian language
Egyptian language

Egyptian is a branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages language family along with the Chadic languages, Berber languages, Semitic languages, Cushitic languages and possibly Omotic languages languages....
 spoken from 2600 BC to 2000 BC during the Old Kingdom
Old Kingdom

The Old Kingdom is the name commonly given to that period in the 3rd millennium BCE when Ancient Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization in complexity and achievement ? this was the first of three so-called "Kingdom" periods, which mark the high points of civilization in the lower Nile Valley ....
 and First Intermediate Period. The Pyramid Texts
Pyramid Texts

The Pyramid Texts are a collection of Ancient Egypt religious text from the time of the Old Kingdom. The pyramid texts are the oldest known religious texts in the world....
 are the largest body of literature written in this phase of the language. Tomb walls of elite Egyptians
Egyptians

Egyptians is the name of the nationality and Mediterranean North African ethnic group native to Egypt.Egyptian identity is closely tied to the Geography of Egypt, dominated by the lower Nile Valley, the small strip of cultivable land stretching from the Cataracts of the Nile to the Mediterranean Sea and enclosed by desert both to the Easte...
 from this period bear autobiographical writings representing Old Egyptian. One of its distinguishing characteristics is the tripling of ideogram
Ideogram

An ideogram or ideograph is a graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept. They can be a straighforward pictogram, or a more abstract symbol that is comprehensible only on the basis of prior convention....
s, phonograms, and determinative
Determinative

A determinative, also known as a taxogram or semagram, is an ideogram used to mark semantics categories of words in logographic scripts....
s to indicate the plural. Overall, it does not differ significantly from Middle Egyptian
Middle Egyptian

Middle Egyptian is the typical form of the Egyptian language spoken from 2000 BC to 1300 BC .Although evolving into Late Egyptian from the 14th century, Middle Egyptian remained in use as literary standard language until the 4th century AD....
, the classical stage of the language.