Late Egyptian
Proper noun
Meaning
Late Egyptian
The Egyptian language as spoken from 1069 to 700 BCE
Examples
By this time, the Late Egyptian word is reconstructed to have been pronounced *par-ʕoʔ whence Herodotus derove the name of one of the Egyptian kings, Φερων.
In earlier stages of Egyptian, the liquids were not distinguished in writing until the New Kingdom, when Late Egyptian became the administrative language.
Number, gender, tense, and mood are indicated by prefixes that come from Late Egyptian.