Pages 646 Genre Textbook | Originally published 1927 Page count 646 | |
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Publisher Griffith Institute, Oxford (1957, third edition, revised) Publication date 1927 (first edition)
1950 (second edition, fully revised)
1957 (third edition, revised) Subjects Egyptian language, Language Similar Egyptology books, Egyptian language books | ||
Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs was written by Alan Gardiner and first published in 1927 in London by the Clarendon Press. It has been reprinted several times since. The third edition published in 1957 is the most widely used version for the subject. Through a series of thirty-three lessons, the book gives a very thorough overview of the language and writing system of Ancient Egypt. The focus of the book is the literary language of the Middle Kingdom. The creation of the book resulted in the development of an accurate and detailed hieroglyphic typeset, Gardiner's Sign List.
Gardiner’s work is considered to this day to be the most thorough textbook of the Egyptian language in existence, although subsequent developments have supplanted a number of aspects of Gardiner's understanding of Egyptian grammar, particularly with regard to the verbal system.