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1,072 hieroglyphic signs, verified against Unicode
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Every historical claim carries a recorded source and a stated confidence
Full Arabic and English — not machine translation
1,072 hieroglyphic signs, verified against Unicode
Completely free — no account, no advertising
1,958 places across Egypt: museums, temples, sites and reserves
A new daily challenge every day, on Cairo time
Write your name in hieroglyphs and take it as a wallpaper
Open data and cited sources — check our work yourself
Words we still say
Some of what an Egyptian says every day is older than Arabic. Some of what is said to be, isn’t.
67 words, each with its descent and a source
The Egyptian language did not die suddenly. It became Coptic, Coptic stayed the spoken language of Egypt for centuries after the conquest, and when it receded it left its words in the mouths of those who inherited it. The entries below are not charming anecdotes: each has a written chain of descent, a lexicographic reference, and a stated confidence level. That last is the most important thing on the page.
Press any word to see its whole journey from Ancient Egyptian to today.
Method: every entry here is tied to a specialist lexicographic reference; Wikipedia is a starting point for research, never a source (rule 3.3). Ancient Egyptian pronunciation is a scholarly reconstruction, not documented speech — vowels were never written, and the Latin forms above transliterate the consonants only (rule 3.6). If you find an error or a better reference, write to us: correction is part of the work, not an objection to it.