548 SEYFFARTH—CHAMPOLLION AND RENOUF. 
the substance of the system at all; and these are sufficiently 
accounted for from the difficulty of the matter.* 
. The language expressed in Egyptian texts is the sacred 
dialect (iepa diddexroc), i. €., the ancient Coptic, differing from 
the modern Coptic as the ancient Greek differs from the mod- 
ern, and being more nearly related to the primitive language, 
the Hebrew, than the modern Coptic. This principle excludes 
that of the Jesuit Kircher, according to which the hieroglyphic 
language was ideal; further, that of Champollion, according 
to which one half of every inscription signifies ideal concep- 
tions, the other half modern Coptic words; likewise, that of 
Young, according to which all hieroglyphic figures, except 
those of the proper names, are also symbolic; that of Sickler, 
who made the hieroglyphic language a mixture of all Semitic 
languages ; that of Janelli, who supposed “la lingua Ebraica 
ma piu pura.” 
writing was not at all different from the aboriginal mage 
principle excludes Young’s theory, according to whi 
ized syllables, as ole, eneh, bir, were represented by the hiero- 
: rkun i . Pap. 7 
1826 ; — ——— hag die ca Ei Gar 
ZEgypt.; Neue Jahrbucher fur Philol., vol. | 
y Geantinente der M: ; eg 0 
rtor., Aug. 9, 1844; dea gern t%. 
eries; ‘Transactions of the St. Louis Academy 
m: Seiunasy of nebent Discoveries, pages 38, ” 
‘pamphlet, Ueber die riingli ‘Laute der Hebrae!s 2 
1, Leip., 1824; De soni i yh aloe cag nateone rum, Lips., 1824; Un- 
