# Rilly 2012: The Meroitic Language and Writing System

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# The Meroitic Language and Writing System

Claude Rilly, Alex de Voogt, 2012. _Cambridge University Press_.

The standard introduction: the script (23 signs plus a word divider, cursive and hieroglyphic forms), phonology, grammar, the linguistic affiliation and the methods used on the corpus. Notes that Griffith deciphered the sign values from Egyptian and Meroitic parallels, that the vocabulary he could understand was limited to names, titles and places, and that more than 1,100 texts are catalogued in the REM.

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[Funerary formulae, names, titles, places and a few dozen words are understood; long royal and narrative texts…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/meroitic/answers/ANS0CVV03A426N5/funerary-formulae-names-titles-places-and-a-few-dozen-words)

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[Griffith's understood vocabulary was limited to names of people and gods, titles and places; later progress…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/meroitic/evidence/EVD0CVV03HY09PX/griffiths-understood-vocabulary-was-limited-to-names-of)

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