''Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs'' is a 1927 book by English Egyptologist

Alan Gardiner Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner, (29 March 1879 – 19 December 1963) was an English Egyptologist, linguist, philologist, and independent scholar. He is regarded as one of the premier Egyptologists of the early and mid-20th century. Personal li ...

. First published in 1927 in

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by the

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, it has been reprinted several times since. The third edition, published in 1957, is the most widely used version for the subject. Through a series of 33 lessons, the book gives a very thorough overview of the

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. The focus of the book is the literary language of the Middle Kingdom. The creation of the book resulted in the development of an accurate and detailed hieroglyphic typeset, Gardiner's Sign List. Gardiner's work is considered to this day to be the most thorough textbook of the Egyptian language in existence, although subsequent developments have supplanted a number of aspects of Gardiner's understanding of Egyptian grammar, particularly with regard to the verbal system.

Editions

* First edition (1927), Oxford: Clarendon Press. * Second edition, fully revised (1950), London: Published on behalf of the Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, by

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. * Third edition, revised (1957), Oxford: Griffith Institute,

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* Full text of
Egyptian Grammar
'' (1st edition) at HathiTrust Digital Library
Key to the exercises
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