They used paint.
(i'm not to sure but i think it is correct...)
they are pictures used to represent meanings that are not always obvious An ideogram, like a sign that looked like a man meant man, or something close , so a man walking might mean " walk " A phonogram, where an eye placed after an otherwise unidentifiable symbol meant that that symbol had something to do with looking. And a picture of an owl would mean the sound of the letter "m" since m was the main consonant in the word for owl
They were used to record history, or tell a story, all the things we use our language for now. They were carved on to walls and pillars, (the ones on the pyramids tell the story of its occupant ) or on papyrus as historical records or bookkeeping .
Answer: The first answer is incorrect and gives a completely false idea of how hieroglyphs work. Some hieroglyphs are indeed pictograms, where a single sign stands for a whole word, but most are phonograms (sound-signs). Pictograms represent a tiny proportion of the total number of signs.
Only consonant sounds were written, exactly as in ancient Arabic, Hebrew and Phoenician. The writer and the reader of a text knew which vowels to say in each word because they were familiar with the language - for example an English speaking person today would recognise this text and know exactly how to say it with all the vowels included: "Mry hd lttl lmb, ts flc ws wht s snw".
Some hieroglyphs represent a single consonant sound, some represent two consonants and others three: the semicircular loaf stands for t, the picture of the upper part of a face represents sn, the head of a duck represents the sound 3pd. These and many more phonograms are used to write out words in the ancient Egyptian language, with single-consonant signs being used to spell foreign names.
There is another class of hieroglyphs called "determinatives" which have no sound value, simply serving to clarify the meaning of a particular word.
no, they use Arabic script, and Christians use Coptic script related to Greek to write Coptic - language descended from Egyptian.
Yes, ancient Egyptian writing comprises hieroglyphic characters.
Yes, the ancient Egyptians writings were a form of pictograph called hieroglyphics.
Yes, the ancient Egyptians used hieroglyphics.
No, there was no punctuation in ancient Egypt. The concept of punctuation was introduced by the Greeks around the 5th Century B.C.E.
No, there were no spaces between words.
No, they use Arabic.
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hieroglyphs help Egyptians because enemies wouldn't know what they were writing
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Nobody gave hieroglyphs to the ancient Egyptians - they developed the writing system themselves.
No, they use Arabic.
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the egyptians......:P
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Hieroglyphs.
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No, the last hieroglyphic inscription was made nearly 2000 years ago. Today the only people who use hieroglyphs are students of the extinct ancient Egyptian language.
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By the 4th century CE, few Egyptians were capable of reading hieroglyphs, and the myth of allegorical hieroglyphs was ascendant. Monumental use of hieroglyphs ceased after the closing of all non-Christian temples in 391 CE by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I; the last known inscription is from Philae, known as The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, from 396 CE.
Egyptians still use hieroglypics
The pharaohs in hieroglyphs are large because they were considered very important by the Egyptians.