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What effects did the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphs have on the world at the time?
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∙ 12y ago
If you could read write hieroglyphs at the time,
you were very important.
people needed you all the time to write down important dates,notes and also write in the pharaoh's tomb to tell the story of their life.
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How do you write Egypt in Egyptian?
Nobody in the world can speak ancient Egyptian today, since the language was written without its vowel sounds (exactly as in ancient Phoenician, Arabic and Hebrew). For this reason modern Egyptologists often use the vowel e to represent the missing, unknown vowels, so the word for house (pr in hieroglyphs) is said per, the word for established (mn in hieroglyphs) is said men and so on. This is certainly not the way the words were said in ancient times, but the real sound of the language is lost for ever.The way to learn to read and write the language is to sign up for an Egyptology course at a university; in the UK, Cambridge University is currently offering a course for beginners (see link below) but there are many similar courses on offer. This will not provide a comprehensive grounding in the ancient Egyptian language - that would take many years of intensive study.Alternatively you could buy a range of books and teach yourself, although it is helpful if you already have experience in other languages such as Latin, Hebrew or Arabic. Some books that I would recommend are:How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs by Mark Collier and Bill ManleyDiscovering Egyptian Hieroglyphs by Karl-Theodor ZauzichUnderstanding Hieroglyphs by Hilary Wilson
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What was the Egyptian hieroglyphs?
Hieroglyphs is the name for the oldest form of Egyptian writing. Hieroglyphs are thought to originate in about 3200BC and they declined in use in about 400BC. Hieroglyphs were also mainly used for religious and very important writings such as texts about wars. Hieroglyphs were found as the top layer of writing on the Rosetta stone, along with Demotic writing and Ancient Greek. From the Ancient Greek, Jean Francois Champollion was able to translate Hieroglyphs.
Why do Egyptians write like that?
If by "like that" you mean "using hieroglyphs", they don't, not any more. They write using the same script that is used throughout the Arabic-speaking world.Ancient Egyptians wrote with hieroglyphs because it was what they knew. Every early writing system we know of (e.g., Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Central American, Chinese) began by using pictures of recognizable objects. Of these, only the Egyptian pictures remained recognizable instead of evolving into simplified, abstract shapes. This may be because the Egyptians saw their writing system as being of divine origin (their name for it, mdw nTr, means "divine speech"), or simply because the Egyptian civilization was one of the most conservative that the world has ever known.
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It is difficult to pinpoint the "first" language in the world as languages have evolved over thousands of years. However, some of the earliest known written languages include Sumerian, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and ancient Chinese scripts. These languages developed independently in different regions of the world.
Do Egyptians understand hieroglyphics?
The Egyptian hieroglyphs were last used nearly two thousand years ago to write a language that has not been spoken in any form for several hundred years. It's probably true that more people in Egypt can read hieroglyphs than in other parts of the world, but if so that's only because they studied them in school, just as speakers of English must study Old English in order to read Beowulf.
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