Neo-Middle Egyptian

Calque of German Neo-Mittelägyptisch.

Neo-Middle Egyptian

1. (linguistics, history) The form of Middle Egyptian archaizingly used as a literary language after the vernacular language had changed into Late Egyptian, and later Demotic and Coptic.

Though this term has some currency, the equivalent French term égyptien de tradition is more commonly used by English-speaking Egyptologists.

• Traditional Egyptian

• (varieties of Egyptian) Egyptian; Earlier Egyptian (Archaic Egyptian, Old Egyptian, Classical Egyptian, Middle Egyptian [Late Middle Egyptian, Neo-Middle Egyptian]), Later Egyptian (Medio-Late Egyptian, Late Egyptian, Demotic, Coptic)