Alright I'm back Medjay, sorry for the long wait. I'll try to continue where we left off; basic linguistic description of Ancient Egyptian. Now that we have the funky consonants we can also see other similarities to the Semitic languages such as tri-consonantal roots and verb-subject-object grammar. Also on the topic of consonants, they are mainly reconstructed from foreign sources (mostly Northwest Semitic and Akkadian). Like Semitic Egyptian had a pretty limited vowel inventory, Early Egyptian vowels being just i i: a a: u u:. The vowels obviously changed in time, going through a shift almost identical to the Canaanite Vowel Shift. Another thing I haven't mentioned yet is Hieroglyphics (and of course the cursive derivatives). Hieroglyphics reportedly occurred during the Gerzean culture on their pottery. Proto-hieroglyphs are dated to the late Naqada culture. The first artifact with an full sentence is from a seal expression of Seth-Peribsen, an early pharaoh during the Second Dynasty (2890 - 2686 BC.