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About this MicroSet

This MicroSet provides a periodization table related to Egyptian, a language family. The recommended chronology provided below is based on data from 5 sources. The lead source is a dataset titled Andreas Stauder's Periodization of the Egyptian Language, which provides historical stages of the Egyptian language according to their respective start and end dates.

Recommended chronology

Stage
Start Date
End Date
Archaic Egyptian Dialect
3200 BCE
2650 BCE
Old Egyptian Dialect
2650 BCE
2100 BCE
Middle Egyptian Dialect
2100 BCE
1600 BCE
Late Egyptian Dialect
1600 BCE
650 BCE
Demotic Dialect
650 BCE
500 CE
Coptic Language
100 CE
1100 CE

Lead source

Title: Andreas Stauder's Periodization of the Egyptian Language
Type: Chronology
Year: 2020
Author: Andréas Stauder
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About

MicroSets are small albeit important datasets related to one specific topic. Data from sources are compiled and statistically compared. The recommendations reflect the latest, most authoritative scholarship. Learn more

Stable URL
https://omnika.org/stable/1305
Created
Oct 16, 2022
Modified
Jan 15, 2023

Source data

See the datasets we compared as part of our recommended chronology.

Stages of the Egyptian Language By OMNIKA Foundation in 2026
Stage
Start Date
End Date
Archaic Egyptian
BCE
2650 BCE
Old Egyptian
BCE
2100 BCE
Middle Egyptian
BCE
1600 BCE
Late Egyptian
BCE
650 BCE
Demotic
BCE
500 CE
Coptic
CE
1100 CE
By Andréas Stauder in 1970
Stage
Start Date
End Date
Archaic Egyptian
3050 BC
2650 BC
Old Egyptian
2650 BC
2150 BC
Middle Egyptian
2150 BC
1350 BC
Late Egyptian
1350 BC
650 BC
Demotic
650 BC
300 AD
Coptic
300 AD
1300 AD
Source: Stauder, "Egyptian Language .
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By Peter Beylage in 1970
Stage
Start Date
End Date
Earlier Egyptian
3200 BC
Archaic Egyptian
3200 BC
2600 BC
Old Egyptian
2600 BC
2000 BC
Middle Egyptian
2000 BC
1300 BC
Late and Neo-Middle Egyptian
1300 BC
400 AD
Late Egyptian
1300 BC
700 BC
Demotic
650 BC
401 BC
Coptic
1 AD
1100 AD
Source: Beylage, Middle Egyptian .
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By James Peter Allen in 1970
Stage
Start Date
End Date
Old Egyptian
2600 BC
2100 BC
Middle Egyptian
2100 BC
1600 BC
Late Egyptian
1600 BC
600 BC
Demotic
650 BC
500 AD
Coptic
100 AD
1100 AD
Source: Allen, Middle Egyptian / 2ed. .
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By James Eric Hoch in 1970
Stage
Start Date
End Date
Old Egyptian
3000 BCE
2135 BCE
Middle Egyptian
2135 BCE
1300 BCE
Classical
2135 BCE
2000 BCE
Post-classical
2000 BCE
1300 BCE
Late Egyptian
1550 BCE
715 BCE
Demotic
715 BCE
470 CE
Coptic
200 CE
1500 CE
Source: Hoch, MEG .
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By Alan Henderson Gardiner in 1970
Stage
Start Date
End Date
Old Egyptian
3180 B.C.
2240 B.C.
Middle Egyptian
2240 B.C.
1990 B.C.
Late Egyptian
1573 B.C.
715 B.C.
Demotic
715 B.C.
470 A.D.
Coptic
200 A.D.
640 A.D.
Source: Gardiner, EG 3ed. .
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About

MicroSets are small albeit important datasets related to one specific topic. Data from sources are compiled and statistically compared. The recommendations reflect the latest, most authoritative scholarship. Learn more

Stable URL
https://omnika.org/stable/1305
Created
Oct 16, 2022
Modified
Jan 15, 2023

Cite this page

MLA Modern Language Association (8th ed.)

OMNIKA Foundation Contributors. "Stages of the Egyptian Language." OMNIKA – World Mythology Index, OMNIKA Foundation, 16 Oct. 2022, omnika.org/stable/1305. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.

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APA American Psychological Association (6th ed.)

OMNIKA (2022, October 16). Stages of the Egyptian Language. Retrieved from https://omnika.org/stable/1305

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CMS Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.)

OMNIKA Foundation Contributors. "Stages of the Egyptian Language." Las Vegas, NV: OMNIKA Foundation. Created October 16, 2022. Accessed June 17, 2026. https://omnika.org/stable/1305.

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Bibliography

Allen, Peter J. Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs. 2nd rev. ed. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Beylage, Peter. Middle Egyptian. Languages of the Ancient Near East [Series]. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, 2018.
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Gardiner, Sir Alan H. Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs. 3rd ed. rev. Oxford, United Kingdom: Griffith Institute, 1957.
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Hoch, James E. Middle Egyptian Grammar. Vol. 15, SSEA Publication. Mississauga, Canada: Benben, 1997.
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Stauder, Andreas. "History of the Egyptian Language." In The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology, 930–956. Edited by Elizabeth Bloxam and Ian Shaw. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2020.
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