Ancient Egyptian

The language recorded by Egyptian hieroglyphs and their cursive derivatives, attested continuously longer than almost any other language in written form. Conventionally divided into five stages: Old Egyptian (Old Kingdom, circa 2600 to 2100 BCE), Middle Egyptian (First and Second Intermediate Periods, circa 2100 to 1500 BCE, and long afterward as a prestige literary and monumental register), Late Egyptian (New Kingdom, circa 1500 to 1000 BCE), Demotic (a highly cursive administrative and literary register from roughly 650 BCE), and Coptic (emerging around 300 CE, written in the Greek alphabet with additional signs borrowed from Demotic). Coptic stopped being anyone's everyday spoken language sometime between 1000 and 1500 CE, but survives to the present as the liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church.