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<p>[QUOTE="lrbguy, post: 3617634, member: 88829"]My confusion came from not realizing that Hieroglyphic and Demotic are both script types for the same underlying dialect of Egyptian language, hieratic. One was monumental the other inscriptional for court records, legal docs (such as marriage contracts) and the like. Since the Egyptian of Late Kingdom courts was of a different dialect from Middle Egyptian courts I cannot assume that the hieroglyphic on the Rosetta Stone is in the same dialect as the Demotic. Is that part of the problem? If so, I'm not sure I see why Coptic helps. Does it set down the essential form of what we may call "Egyptian?"[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lrbguy, post: 3617634, member: 88829"]My confusion came from not realizing that Hieroglyphic and Demotic are both script types for the same underlying dialect of Egyptian language, hieratic. One was monumental the other inscriptional for court records, legal docs (such as marriage contracts) and the like. Since the Egyptian of Late Kingdom courts was of a different dialect from Middle Egyptian courts I cannot assume that the hieroglyphic on the Rosetta Stone is in the same dialect as the Demotic. Is that part of the problem? If so, I'm not sure I see why Coptic helps. Does it set down the essential form of what we may call "Egyptian?"[/QUOTE]
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