id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9749 Egyptian language - Wikipedia .html text/html 6891 938 69 Middle Egyptian was retained as a literary standard language, and in this usage survived until the Christianisation of Roman Egypt in the 4th century.[citation needed] Demotic is the name given to the Egyptian script used to write both the Egyptian vernacular of the Late Period from the eight century BC as well as texts in archaic forms of the language. Phonologically, Egyptian contrasted labial, alveolar, palatal, velar, uvular, pharyngeal, and glottal consonants. However, that changed in the later stages of the language, including Late Egyptian, Demotic and Coptic. Allen, James P., Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, first edition, Cambridge University Press, 1999. Borghouts, Joris F., Egyptian: An Introduction to the Writing and Language of the Middle Kingdom, two vols., Peeters, 2010. Categories: Ancient Egyptian language Hidden categories: Articles containing Ancient Egyptian-language text ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9749.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9749.txt