Appendix:Egyptian transliteration schemes

Table
The following table provides a comparative overview of the schemes employed by various major scholars or works to transcribe/transliterate Egyptian from its decipherment in the 19th to the present day. Highlighted rows indicate schemes that gained widespread use in their time; the last also indicates the system adopted by Wiktionary.

Chronological list of sources

 * Champollion, Jean-François. 1822. Lettre à M. Dacier.
 * Lepsius, C. R. 1837. Letter to Rosellini.
 * Bunsen, Christian. 1845. Ägyptens Stelle in der Weltgeschichte.
 * Lepsius, C. R. 1854. Das allgemeine linguistische Alphabet: Grundsätze der Übertragung fremder Schriftsysteme und bisher noch ungeschriebener Sprachen in europäische Buchstaben.
 * Birch, Samuel. 1857. An Introduction to the Study of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics.
 * Devéria, Théodule. 1857. Notice sur les antiquités égyptiennes du musée de Lyon.
 * Devéria, Théodule. 1858. Spécimen de l’interprétation des écritures de l'ancienne Égypte.
 * Chabas, François Joseph. 1860. Le papyrus magique Harris.
 * Lepsius, C. R. 1863. Standard Alphabet for Reducing Unwritten Languages and Foreign Graphic Systems to a Uniform Orthography in European Letters, 2nd rev. edn.
 * Brugsch, Heinrich. 1867. Hieroglyphisch-demotisches Wörterbuch, vol. 1.
 * De Rougé, Emmanuel. 1867. Chrestomathie égyptienne, ou Choix de textes égyptiens transcrits, traduits et accompagnés d’un commentaire perpétuel et précédés d’un abrégé grammatical.
 * Devéria, Théodule. 1868. Le papyrus judiciaire de Turin et les papyrus Lee et Rollin.
 * Brugsch, Heinrich. 1872. Hieroglyphische Grammatik.
 * Maspero, Gaston. 1873. in Mélanges d’archéologie égyptienne et assyrienne, vol. 1.
 * Lepsius, C. R. 1874. Second International Congress of Orientalists, London.
 * Renouf, Peter Le Page. 1875. An Elementary Grammar of the Ancient Egyptian Language in the Hieroglyphic Type.
 * Birch, Samuel. 1877. Egyptian Texts.
 * Rossi, Francesco. 1877. Grammatica copto-geroglifica, con un’ appendice dei principali segni sillabici e del loro significato, illustrati da esempi.
 * Brugsch, Heinrich. 1880. Hieroglyphisch-demotisches Wörterbuch, vol. 5.
 * Loret, Victor. 1889. Manuel de la langue égyptienne: grammaire, tableau des hieroglyphes, textes & glossaire.
 * Brugsch, Heinrich. 1889. Die Aegyptologie: ein Grundriss der aegyptischen Wissenschaft.
 * Steindorff, Georg. 1892. Das altägyptische Alphabet und seine Umschreibung.
 * Egypt Exploration Fund, ed. Newberry, Percy E. 1893. Beni Hassan, vol. II.
 * Erman, Adolf, trans. Breasted, James Henry. 1894. Egyptian Grammar, with Table of Signs, Bibliography, Exercises for Reading and Glossary.
 * Erman, Adolf. 1896. “Die Umschreibung des Ägyptischen” in Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, Volumes 34-36.
 * Budge, E. A. Wallis. 1898. The Book of the Dead.
 * Griffith, Francis Llewelyn. 1898. A Collection of Hieroglyphs.
 * Petrie, W. M. Flinders. 1899. A History Of Egypt.
 * Budge, E. A. Wallis. 1910. Egyptian Language: Easy Lessons in Egyptian Hieroglyphics.
 * Erman, Adolf. 1911. Ägyptische Grammatik.
 * Budge, E. A. Wallis. 1920. An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary.
 * Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann. 1926–1961. Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache.
 * Gardiner, Alan. 1927. Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, First Edition.
 * Edel, Elmar. 1955. Altägyptische Grammatik.
 * Ward, William A. Notes on Some Egypto-Semitic Roots.
 * Rössler, Otto. 1977. “Das Ägyptische als semitische Sprache” in Christentum am roten Meer, vol. 1.
 * Buurman, Jan; Nicolas Grimal; Jochen Hallof; Michael Hainsworth; Dirk van der Plas. 1988. Inventaire des signes hieroglyphiques en vue de leur saisie informatique.
 * Vernus, Pascal. 1988. “L’égypto-copte” in Cohen, David. Les langues chamito-sémitiques.
 * Hodge, Carleton Taylor. 1990. “The Role of Egyptian Within Afroasiatic” in ed. Baldi, Philip. Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology.
 * Schenkel, Wolfgang. 1990. Einführung in die altägyptische Sprachwissenschaft.
 * Loprieno, Antonio. 1995. Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction.
 * Hannig, Rainer. 1995. Großes Handwörterbuch Ägyptisch-Deutsch.
 * Hoch, James E. 1997. Middle Egyptian Grammar.
 * Depuydt, Leo. 2012. Fundamentals of Egyptian Grammar I: Elements.
 * Allen, James P. 2000. Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, First Edition.
 * Loprieno, Antonio. 2001. “From Ancient Egyptian to Coptic” in Haspelmath, Martin et al. (eds.), Language Typology and Language Universals.
 * Schneider, Thomas. 2003. “Etymologische Methode, die Historizität der Phoneme und das ägyptologische Transkriptionsalphabet” in Lingua aegyptia: Journal of Egyptian Language Studies 11:187–199.
 * Rabinovich, Yakov. 2004. Isle of Fire: A Tour of the Egyptian Further World.
 * Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae.
 * Takács, Gabor. 2008. Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, vol. 3.
 * Di Biase-Dyson, Camilla; Kammerzell, Frank; Werning, Daniel A. 2009. “Glossing Ancient Egyptian: Suggestions for adapting the Leipzig Glossing Rules” in Lingua aegyptia: Journal of Egyptian Language Studies 17:343-366.
 * ed. Werning, Daniel A.; Glossing Ancient Languages contributors. 2013. Glossing Ancient Languages. Excellence Cluster Topoi, Berlin: Humboldt University Berlin.
 * Werning, Daniel A. 2015. Einführung in die hieroglyphisch-ägyptische Schrift und Sprache.
 * Haspelmath, Martin. 2015. “A Grammatical Overview of Egyptian and Coptic” in Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics in Typological Perspective.

Other resources

 * Legge, F. 1902. “The History of the Transliteration of Egyptian” in Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, Volume 24.
 * Peust, Carsten. 1999. Egyptian phonology: an introduction to the phonology of a dead language.