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Citations:Egyptic

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English citations of Egyptic

  • 1814, Edward Daniel Clarke, Robert Walpole, Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa: Greece, Egypt, and the Holy land, Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, page 217:
    [...] the other two are but fragments; one of them written in the common Egyptic character, that of the other approaching much more to the hieroglyphical mode of writing.
  • 1854, John Calvin, translated by John Owen, Calvin's Bible Commentaries: Jeremiah and Lamentations, Part IV, Calvin Translation Society, page 562:
    And the Prophet expressly mentions the surname of the Pharaoh, which was Hophra, the meaning of which is not known to me; and it is probably an Egyptic word, for there is no such word in Hebrew [...]
  • 2009, Stefan Goodwin, Africa in Europe: Antiquity into the age of global expansion[1], Lexington Books, →ISBN:
    The Egyptic language of Ancient Egypt, like all the others just mentioned, belongs to a linguistic phylum that is classified as Afro-Asiatic, [...]