Thus Wrote ʿOnchsheshonqy: An Introductory Grammar of Demotic

Author(s): Janet H. Johnson.

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Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 45

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Thus Wrote ’Onchsheshonqy: An Introductory Grammar of Demotic introduces readers to Demotic, a late stage of the ancient Egyptian language and the cursive script used for everyday, legal, literary, and religious texts for more than a thousand years. Janet H. Johnson’s widely used teaching grammar guides students through the fundamentals of Demotic grammar and script, using the Ptolemaic manuscript of the Instructions of ’Onchsheshonqy as its central text. Designed for readers with some background in Late Egyptian and Coptic, the volume offers a clear entry point into one of the most important writing systems of ancient Egypt.

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Table of Contents

Preface

Lesson 1: Introduction, Alphabet, Sentence Types, Definitions
Lesson 2: Nouns, Articles, Genitive, Independent Pronouns, Interrogative Pronouns, Nominal Sentences, Exercises
Lesson 3: sḏm=f, Passive, Suffix Pronouns, Dependent Pronouns, Vocabulary, Exercises
Lesson 4: Adverbs, Prepositions, Prepositional Phrases, Exercises
Lesson 5: Infinitives, Qualitatives, Present Tense, Proclitic Pronouns, Future Tense, Vocabulary, Exercises
Lesson 6: Adjectives, sḏm=f of Adjective Verbs, Demonstratives, Possessives, Exercises
Lesson 7: Imperative, Optative, Questions, Proper Names, Numbers, Conjunction and Interjections, Vocabulary, Exercises
Lesson 8: Converters, Circumstantials, Relatives, Cleft Sentences, Vocabulary, Exercises
Lesson 9: Second Tenses, Imperfect, Vocabulary, Exercises
Lesson 10: Clause Conjugations, Terminative, Temporal, Conditional, Infinitive of as Sḏm=f Object of a Verb, Finalis, Purpose Clauses, Conjunctive, Vocabulary, Exercises
Lesson 11: Negatives, Present Tense, Other Main Clauses, Clause Conjugations, Historical Development, Exercises