[DOC] [TLE] History of writing - Wikipedia [PAR] The history of writing is primarily the development of expressing language by 
letters or other .... The earliest literary authors known by name are Ptahhotep (
who wrote in .... which dates back to the early Harappan phase of around 3000 
BC in ancient .... though other languages such as Syriac and Coptic were 
important too. [DOC] [TLE] Cuneiform script - Wikipedia [PAR] Cuneiform script is one of the earliest systems of writing, distinguished by its 
wedge-shaped ... The earliest known Sumerian king whose name appears on 
contemporary ... The Semitic languages employed equivalents for many signs 
that were ... The last known cuneiform inscription, an astronomical text, was 
written in 75... [DOC] [TLE] Culture of Egypt - Wikipedia [PAR] The culture of Egypt has thousands of years of recorded history. Ancient Egypt 
was among the ... The Coptic language, the last stage of Egyptian, is today the 
liturgical language ... The Berber languages are represented by Siwi, spoken by 
about 5,000 ... Religious literature is best known for its hymns to and its mortuary 
texts. [DOC] [TLE] Copts - Wikipedia [PAR] The Copts are an ethno-religious group that primarily inhabit the area of modern 
Egypt, where they are the largest Christian denomination. Copts are also the 
largest Christian adherent group in Sudan and Libya. Historically, they spoke the 
Coptic language, a direct descendant of the ..... The Coptic Church is known to 
have historical roots in Libya long before the... [DOC] [TLE] Coptic: Egypt's Christian Language  The BAS Library [PAR] Remember the Coptic Gospel of Jesus' Wife, whose claim to authenticity 
trumpeted ... How do Coptic and the Copts fit into world history, all 5,000 years of 
it? ... The fourth stage is Demotic, written in a highly cursive variant of 
hieroglyphic .... The fifth and final phase of the Egyptian language is Coptic, 
which is written with... [DOC] [TLE] Depuydt, Leo - Research - Brown University [PAR] I have authored, or co-authored as editor, eleven books and written close to one 
... The latest of Something Completely Different, non-Egyptological, is as follows: 
... Coptic is also by far the most transparent and best known of all the stages. .... a 
stage of a language, Egyptian, whose history is the longest attested of any ever... [DOC] [TLE] The Literature of the Copts and the Contributions of Monsignor ... [PAR] Sep 1, 2015 ... the Copts and all that is Coptic fit into world history, all 5000 years of it, and ... 
Need it be said, the French-born Henri Hyvernat whose memory is ... case refers 
to the ancient and medieval languages and cultures of ..... In one dimension, it is 
the last and best-known stage of Egyptian, which has the longest... [DOC] [TLE] Egypt facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about ... [PAR] South of Cairo, most of the country (known as Upper Egypt) is a tableland rising 
to ... lynx, mongoose, and wild boar, the last-named inhabiting the Nile Delta. .... 
with the Coptic Orthodox Church being the largest Christian denomination. ... 
Egypt has the oldest recorded history in Western civilization, dating back 5,000 
years. [DOC] [TLE] Studying 5000-Year Old Words | Canadian Language Museum Blog [PAR] Dec 21, 2014 ... SG : Egyptian is actually the longest continually-attested language in the world. ... 
Coptic was spoken until the 17th/18th century AD, and even now it's still ... SG : I 
don't know; most texts do not include the name of the scribe who wrote ... that's 
been done over the last two hundred years by Egyptologists, and... [DOC] [TLE] ancient Egypt - Macedonian and Ptolemaic Egypt (332-30 bc ... [PAR] The earliest known Greek documentary papyrus, found at aqqrah in 1973, ... of 
the next 300 years the most powerful politically and culturally, and it was the last 
to ... for a complete census of the kingdom that was to record the sources of water
; ... From the first phase of the wars of Alexander's successors the Ptolemies had
... [DOC] [TLE] The living

Question: Coptic was the last phase of this language whose 5,000-year recorded history is the longest known
Answer: Egyptian