Possessive Adjectives in the Late Egyptian grammar and Its popularity In the "D'Orbiney" Papyrus EA.10183

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Faculty of Arts, Department of Egyptian Antiquities. New Valley University, Egypt.

Abstract

Possessive Adjectives were very common and widespread in the Egyptian language in its late linguistic phase, as it was used and appeared abundantly in many texts and papyri dating back to that late linguistic period. An example of this is the prevalence of Possessive Adjective in the "D'Orbiney" Papyrus under study from the reign of the king "Seti" II, of the Dynasty 19, now housed in the British Museum EA.10183, and the emergence of Possessive articles was associated with the emergence of definite articles, Possessive article were derived from definite articles at the end of the classical phase. The emergence of new Possessive articles characteristics led to a change in the system of expressing Possessive in the language, As the ancient Egyptian language did not know what is called possessive Adjectives in the accepted form except at the end of the classical linguistic phase, as in the past, possessive Adjectives were a form of adding the Suffix pronoun as a direct addition to names, and there was more than one way to express Possessive in that period through The context of speech, and with the emergence of the new style of Possessive Adjectives at the end of the classical and late eras, it also became popular in Demotic and Coptic, Where the Possessive article usually corresponds to the thing that is owned in gender and number, Not with the owner, which is expressed by the Suffix pronoun,

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