Kemetic (other)
Kemetic may refer to: *Relating to Kemet, or ancient Egypt *Ancient Egyptian language *A follower of Kemetism See also *Kemet (other) Kemet, kmt or km.t may refer to: * Kemet or km.t, an ancient name of Egypt * KEMET Corporation, American capacitor manufacturer * Kemetism, revivals of the ancient Egyptian religion * Kmt (magazine), ''Kmt'' (magazine), an academic journal of anci ... {{disambig Kemetism Ancient Egypt ...
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Egyptian Language
The Egyptian language or Ancient Egyptian ( ) is a dead Afro-Asiatic language that was spoken in ancient Egypt. It is known today from a large corpus of surviving texts which were made accessible to the modern world following the decipherment of the ancient Egyptian scripts in the early 19th century. Egyptian is one of the earliest written languages, first being recorded in the hieroglyphic script in the late 4th millennium BC. It is also the longest-attested human language, with a written record spanning over 4000 years. Its classical form is known as Middle Egyptian, the vernacular of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt which remained the literary language of Egypt until the Roman period. By the time of classical antiquity the spoken language had evolved into Demotic, and by the Roman era it had diversified into the Coptic dialects. These were eventually supplanted by Arabic after the Muslim conquest of Egypt, although Bohairic Coptic remains in use as the liturgica ...
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Kemetism
Kemetism (also Kemeticism; both from the Egyptian ', usually voweled Kemet, the native name of ancient Egypt), also sometimes referred to as Neterism (from ' ( Coptic ''noute'') " deity"), or Egyptian Neopaganism, is a revival of ancient Egyptian religion and related expressions of religion in classical and late antiquity, emerging during the 1970s. A ''Kemetic'' is one who follows Kemetism. There are several main groups, each of which takes a different approach to its beliefs, ranging from eclectic to reconstructionist; however, all of these can be identified as belonging to three strains, including: reconstructed Kemetism (adopting a philological and scholarly approach), a syncretic approach, and a more novel synthesis tending toward monotheism, Kemetic Orthodoxy. Kemetism and Kemetists The movement's name is based on an endonym of Egypt, '' Kemet'' (the conventional vocalization of hieroglyphic notation ''km.t''). The word is also sometimes written as Takemet, ...
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Kemet (other)
Kemet, kmt or km.t may refer to: * Kemet or km.t, an ancient name of Egypt * KEMET Corporation, American capacitor manufacturer * Kemetism, revivals of the ancient Egyptian religion * ''Kmt'' (magazine), an academic journal of ancient Egypt * A fictional compound for protecting against dragon fire, in the 1984 book ''The Hero and the Crown'' by Robin McKinley * Sons of Kemet, a British jazz group formed in 2011 See also * Km (hieroglyph) The Egyptian hieroglyph for "black" ( 𓆎) in Gardiner's sign list is numbered I6. Its phonetic value is '. The '' Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache'' ('Dictionary of the Egyptian Language') lists no less than 24 different terms of km ...