Writing in ancient Egypt

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The native writing systems of Egypt include:

• Egyptian hieroglyphs
• Cursive hieroglyphs
• Hieratic, including "Abnormal Hieratic"
• Demotic
• the Coptic alphabet

Other texts discovered in Egypt and dating to the period before Islam include those written in:

• the Greek alphabet
• the Latin alphabet
• the Cuneiform script
• the Old Persian cuneiform script
• Tifinagh, particularly in the Bahariya Oasis
• the South Arabian alphabet
• the Aramaic alphabet at Elephantine for the Elephantine papyri
• the Syriac alphabet
• the Carian alphabet, which is well attested at the Precinct of Amun-Re of Karnak temple at Thebes
• the Phoenician alphabet, particularly at Memphis and Abu Simbel
• the Nabatean alphabet in the Sinai region