Egyptian Scripts

Hieroglyphs

Online Resources

• Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae
• Ancient Egyptian Language Discussion List
• AEL Archives
• GlyphStudy – Online study group
• Egyptian Hieroglyphs – Study and resources blog
• St Andrews Corpus – The St Andrews Corpus consists of a broad selection of ancient Egyptian texts in PDF format.
• Hieroglyphs.Net – This site may not as comprehensive as some of the others covered in this list but it is still quite a useful resource for learning hieroglyphs and basic vocabulary.
• PlanZero: Hieroglyphic Flashcards – These flashcards are an excellent way to test your knowledge of Egyptian phonograms.
• JSesh – While this technically isn’t a resource for learning Middle Egyptian, this open-source hieroglyphic text editor is a must-have for anyone who wants to practice writing their own sentences or keep notes of their progress.

Books

• Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs – Allen
• A concise grammar of Middle Egyptian: an outline of Middle Egyptian grammar – Ockinga
• Egyptian grammar – Gardiner
• A concise dictionary of Middle Egyptian – Faulkner
• Bill Manley’s How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs
• Pyramid Texts : Dictionary of Middle Egyptian – Paul Dickson (2006)
• Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy : A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Hieroglyphs

Courses

• Rutgers University: Middle Egyptian Grammar

Hieratic

Books

• Writing Late Egyptian hieratic: a beginner’s primer – Gosline
• Cuneiform Inscriptions And Hieratic Papyri – By Various Egyptologists

Demotic

Books

• A miscellany of Demotic texts and studies – Ryholt and Quack
• Thus Wrote ‘Onchsheshonqy – An Introductory Grammar of Demotic: Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 45
• The Demotic Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

Other resources

• If you can read Spanish there is an excellent introductory essay here on facebook.

Demotic on the Rosetta Stone