by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge · Dover · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780710200228
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«Egyptian Language» is the introductory guide to ancient Egyptian by Sir E.A. Wallis Budge, published by Dover in paperback (246 pages, in English).
Brings the reader closer to the language of ancient Egypt and allows reading hieroglyphs without cross-referencing symbols with Coptic or Greek inscriptions. Budge presents the history of hieroglyphic writing, its evolution into hieratic and demotic, and its decipherment by Young, Champollion and Åkerblad. Includes grammar, vocabulary and a list of signs.
This is the fourth revised edition, published in 1983. E.A. Wallis Budge was a curator and philologist at the British Museum.
Intended for students and enthusiasts of Egyptology who wish to begin reading hieroglyphs.
Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East. He made numerous trips to Egypt and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan on behalf of the British Museum to buy antiquities, and helped it build its collection of cuneiform tablets, manuscripts, and papyri. He published many books on Egyptology, helping to bring the findings to larger audiences. In 1920, he was knighted for his service to Egyptology and the British Museum.
