Hieratic is a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphs first used during the 1st Dynasty (c. 2925 BC - c. 2775 BC). Hieratic script was almost always written in ink with a reed pen on papyrus. After about 660 BC, the demotic script replaced hieratic in most secular writing, but hieratic continued to be used by priests for several more centuries.

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• Coptic alphabet
• Coptic language
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• Egyptian languages
• Egyptian numerals
• Hieroglyph
• Transliteration of ancient Egyptian

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• Basic Lessons in Hieratic