Middle Egyptian is written with the hieroglyphic script. For all its beauty, this script does not represent the language in full. Thus, vowels are not denoted. Studying Middle Egyptian is an unusual endeavor. This book is also unusual as an introduction.
Much emphasis is placed on analysis.
This book is not only a textbook, but also an analysis of the fundamentals of Middle Egyptian cast in a textbook mold for clarity and distinction. The analysis progresses from the most basic elements to ever increasing complexity by simple and obvious incremental steps. No prior knowledge of grammar or of any theory of language is presupposed. Grammatical terms are used parsimoniously. This work is much inspired by the writings of H.J. Polotsky and by a decade of teaching Egyptian to Yale, Brown, and Harvard students.