Traditional Egyptian en · PROPN
Etymology
Calque of French égyptien de tradition.
Meanings
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Synonym of Neo-Middle Egyptian.
Monumental texts, in particular, tend to be composed in a more elevated and traditional register termed “Neo-Middle Egyptian” or “Traditional Egyptian (égyptien de tradition).” Biographical texts participate in this linguistic proliferation in complex ways, from the formal texts of Bakenkhons (no. 2), composed in “Traditional Egyptian,” to the mix of registers, from Middle Egyptian to Late Egyptian, in the biography of Samut (no. 11a; see 4.3).
2007, Elizabeth Frood, Biographical Texts from Ramessid Egypt, page 16:For more than a millennium, Traditional Egyptian coexisted with the various stages of Later Egyptian (see below) in a situation of diglossia, maintaining the linguistic structures of the classical language, but displaying, especially in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, an expansion of its graphic inventory.
2017, Antonio Loprieno, Matthias Müller, Sami Uljas, Non-Verbal Predication in Ancient Egyptian, page 2:Traditional Egyptian I (Dynamics) [article title]
2016, Pascal Vernus, “Traditional Egyptian I (Dynamics)”, in Julie Stauder-Porchet, Andréas Stauder, Willeke Wendrich, editors, UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, page 1:The principal concern of those who are interested in the texts of this period is the varying, and with time increasing, extent of the deviation of their language from Traditional Egyptian.
2002, László Török, The Image of the Ordered World in Ancient Nubian Art: The Construction of the Kushite Mind, 800 BC—300 AD, page 331: