Why did the ancient Egyptian language disappear, how did the Egyptians forget it through the generations?
Hieroglyphics is not the only language of the Pharaonic writing.. But it was used to write religious texts and the history of kings. The Egyptians knew this writing before Egypt was united, that is, before history and before the dynasties.. King Mina accepted the unification of the two countries, and the meaning of this word - which is Greek - is From two syllables meaning the sacred line, and its hieroglyphic meaning: the word of God.
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The Hieratic Script |
With the historical development, the Egyptians invented more easy writing, which is the hieratic script, which means the priestly religious writing, invented by the priests to provide speed in writing and codification and speed in the dissemination of knowledge and science in an easier way. The Egyptians, around 700 BC, invented another, easier script.. Then came the Demotic script, which means “popular writing” or folk script.. It is a quick writing in italic and very short letters, and therefore its popularity increased for writing among the people themselves. And an important point is: Why Don't know the "phonetics" of Pharaonic writing? The secret is that the Egyptians used only consonants and not vowels, so we have not yet known the correct phonetic way to pronounce the ancient Egyptian language!!
The Egyptians stopped using hieroglyphs in the fourth century AD after they used it for about 4000 years, so the hieroglyphs disappeared and no one knew the meaning of their symbols!! But most of what we see now on the walls of our temples was recorded in hieroglyphics because it was established in the eras of great Pharaonic greatness.. The hieroglyphs remained completely unknown until the beginning of the 19th century until we found the Rosetta Stone on which was recorded a message honoring King Ptolemy V in 196 BC. AD, and the French Jean-Francois Champollion was not the first - rather the last - to try to decipher the secrets of this writing.. The first of them was the French scientist Sylvesterde Sassi, who revealed the secrets of the demotic letters and found them from 25 letters.