Do Egyptians still use hieroglyphs

Answer 1

They used paint.

(i'm not to sure but i think it is correct...)

Answer 2

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 3

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.

Answer 4

no, they use Arabic script, and Christians use Coptic script related to Greek to write Coptic - language descended from Egyptian.

Answer 5

Yes, ancient Egyptian writing comprises hieroglyphic characters.

Answer 6

Yes, the ancient Egyptians writings were a form of pictograph called hieroglyphics.

Answer 7

Yes, the ancient Egyptians used hieroglyphics.

Answer 8

No, there was no punctuation in ancient Egypt. The concept of punctuation was introduced by the Greeks around the 5th Century B.C.E.

Answer 9

No, there were no spaces between words.