Egyptian, Demotic; Thus Wrote 'Onchsheshonqy - An Introductory Grammar of Demotic

This third edition has once again benefited from comments and corrections provided
by many individuals. I am especially grateful to Robert Ritner and Karl-Theodor Zauzich for
catching typos and identifying scans that needed to be corrected. Many thanks are due
Thomas Urban of the Oriental Institute Publications Office, who prepared this electronic
version and expertly incorporated the many corrigenda, and to John Sanders, who created
the homepage and uploaded the files on to the Institute’s server.
The publication of this teaching grammar in electronic format is another step for the
Oriental Institute as it explores the Internet as an alternate method to disseminate the
results and tools of its research; significant in this regard is that the sum of the electronic
files comprises a book in one of the Oriental Institute's series. The electronic version of the
manuscript closely follows the printed version. Fourteen files were created, one for the
preliminary pages (title page, table of contents, preface), one for each of the eleven
lessons, one for the indices, and one for the bibliography. Aside from the one file that
contains the preliminary pages, the other thirteen files recreate the printed version of the
book; indeed, if the manuscript were to be printed again, these files would be used to do so.
The fourteen files were converted to PDF (portable document format) files on a Macintosh
using Adobe Acrobat 4.0.
When accessed on the Internet through a browser, the PDF files may not — at
present — be searchable; however, when the PDF files are saved to the user’s computer
and opened with Adobe Acrobat Reader, the files are searchable and pages from the file
can be exported as EPS files, which can be opened, and the graphics thereon manipulated
with a graphics application such as Adobe Photoshop.