Langenesis

Afro-Asiatic family

Old Egyptian

c. 2,600 BCE – 2,000 BCE Extinct

Old Egyptian (c. 2,600 BCE – 2,000 BCE) is an extinct Afro-Asiatic language. It has 4 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Old Egyptian.

See Old Egyptian on the interactive map
ISO 639-3
egy

Language of the Old Kingdom (Pyramid Texts). Preceded by Archaic Egyptian (from c. 3200 BCE), not tracked separately. The ISO code egy covers all pre- Coptic stages.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Afro-Asiaticc. 10,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE
  2. Old Egyptianc. 2,600 BCE – 2,000 BCE

Descendants 1

Sister languages 5

Also descended from Proto-Afro-Asiatic.

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