Editing Egyptian language (section)

===Middle Egyptian===
Middle Egyptian was spoken for about 700 years, beginning around 2000 BC, during the [[Middle Kingdom of Egypt|Middle Kingdom]] and the subsequent [[Second Intermediate Period of Egypt|Second Intermediate Period]].{{sfn|Loprieno|1995|p=5}} As the classical variant of Egyptian, Middle Egyptian is the best-documented variety of the language, and has attracted the most attention by far from [[Egyptology]]. While most Middle Egyptian is seen written on monuments by hieroglyphs, it was also written using a [[cursive hieroglyphs|cursive variant]], and the related [[hieratic]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.archaeology.org/9903/newsbriefs/egypt.html|title=Earliest Egyptian Glyphs – Archaeology Magazine Archive}}</ref>

Middle Egyptian first became available to modern scholarship with the [[Decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs|decipherment of hieroglyphs]] in the early 19th century. The first grammar of Middle Egyptian was published by [[Adolf Erman]] in 1894, surpassed in 1927 by [[Alan Gardiner]]'s work. Middle Egyptian has been well-understood since then, although certain points of the [[Egyptian verb|verb]]al inflection remained open to revision until the mid-20th century, notably due to the contributions of [[Hans Jakob Polotsky]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Polotsky |first=H. J. |title=Études de syntaxe copte |publisher=Société d'Archéologie Copte |location=Cairo |date=1944}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Polotsky |first=H. J. |title=Egyptian Tenses |publisher=Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities |volume=2 |number=5 |year=1965}}</ref>

The Middle Egyptian stage is taken to have ended around the 14th century BC, giving rise to Late Egyptian. This transition was taking place in the later period of the [[Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt]] (known as the [[Amarna Period]]).{{Citation needed|date=August 2020}}

====Egyptien de tradition====
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Original Old Egyptian and Middle Egyptian texts were still used after the 14th century BCE. And an emulation of predominately Middle Egyptian, but also with characteristics of Old Egyptian, Late Egyptian and Demotic, called "{{lang|fr|Égyptien de tradition}}" or "Neo-Middle Egyptian" by scholars, was used as a literary language for new texts since the later [[New Kingdom of Egypt|New Kingdom]] in official and religious [[Egyptian hieroglyphs|hieroglyphic]] and hieratic texts in preference to Late Egyptian or Demotic. ''Égyptien de tradition'' as a religious language survived until the Christianisation of [[Roman Egypt]] in the 4th century.