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The native writing systems of Egypt include:
- Egyptian hieroglyphs
- Cursive hieroglyphs
- Hieratic, including "Abnormal Hieratic"
- Demotic
- the Coptic alphabet
Other texts discovered in Egypt and dating to the period before Islam include those written in:
- the Greek alphabet
- the Latin alphabet
- the Cuneiform script
- the Old Persian cuneiform script
- Tifinagh, particularly in the Bahariya Oasis
- the South Arabian alphabet
- the Aramaic alphabet at Elephantine for the Elephantine papyri
- the Syriac alphabet
- the Carian alphabet, which is well attested at the Precinct of Amun-Re of Karnak temple at Thebes
- the Phoenician alphabet, particularly at Memphis and Abu Simbel
- the Nabatean alphabet in the Sinai region
