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It depends on the precise time period.

The number of signs used in the very earliest texts seem to be fairly limited, but by the Middle Kingdom it had increased to around 700. Many of these were very rarely used, but a scribe would have to learn all of them.

By the Late Period, under Greek and Roman occupation, Egyptian scribes had to learn as many as 6,000 signs.

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