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Books on the Ancient Language: Learning It
Associated to Place: Per Ankh - The Library at the Temple of Isis, > articles -- by * Mirjam Nebet (118 Articles), General Article
Learning Ancient Egyptian is hard work. It takes many years to master it but to be able to at least read cartouches off the temple walls on your visit there, and to scribble simple phrases is doable with not too much effort. Here are some books of interest for that purpose and more:

A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian - R.O. Faulkner
Griffith Institute, Oxford, 1962

English-Egyptian Index of Faulknerīs Concise dictionary of Middle Egyptian - David Shennum
Undena Publications, Malibu 1977 ISBN 0-89003-054

Egyptian Grammar - Sir Alan Gardiner
Griffis Institute, Oxford 1969

Middle Egyptian Grammar - James E. Hoch
Benben Publications Missisuaga 1997 ISBN 0-920168-12-4

How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs - Mark Collier & Bill Manley
University of California Press 1998 ISBN 0-520-21597-4

Egyptian Hieroglyphs - W.V. Davies
British Museum Press 1987 ISBN 0-7141-8063-7

Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy; A Beginnerīs Guide to Writing Hieroglyphs - Henry George Fischer
Metropolitan Museum of Art 1999 ISBN 0-87099-934-6

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