Localizely logo
Sign up

Language code: egy

Technical information about ISO 639 language code egy

Documentation

The table below provides technical details for the Egyptian (Ancient) language, designated by the egy code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

egy

Name

Egyptian (Ancient)

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Old EgyptianMiddle EgyptianLate EgyptianDemotic
Related languages
CopticAkkadianBiblical HebrewAramaicArabic
Key facts
One of the earliest attested languages, with texts dating to ca. 3200 BCEWritten in three principal scripts—hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demoticOrthography records mainly consonants, leaving most vowels unmarked and adding semantic determinativesMiddle Egyptian functioned as a classical, prestige literary standard long after it was spokenEgyptian loan-words entered Greek and, through it, many modern languages (e.g., papyrus, oasis).
Sample phrase

𓇋𓇋𓈖𓎡, 𓈖𓆑𓂋?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Egyptian (Ancient) language, identified by the code egy, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Ancient' by its type.

Previous: Language Code List

Read next: Language Plural Rules

Tired of manually editing translation files?

Our platform streamlines software localization for you.

Try now for Free

Documentation

Localizely logo
About
Resources
Free tools
Boring stuff
Newsletter
Copyrights 2025 © Localizely