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Most of the hieroglyphic symbols were pictures of people, gods, animals and everyday objects. There were three things that a glyph could represent in the writing:
- a specific consonant or set of consonants. For example, a picture of a desert hare represented the two consonants wn. Such a glyph is called a phonogram.
- a specific word or idea. For example, a picture of a banner on a pole represented the word "god", nTr. Such a glyph is an ideogram or logogram.
- a general category of meaning. For example, many words involving eating and speaking included a picture of a man with his hand raised to his mouth. These unpronounced glyphs are known as determinatives.
Some glyphs fell into two or even all three of these categories in different words.
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What is the entire hieroglyphic alphabet?
There is no such thing as a hieroglyphic alphabet. The Egyptians used about 700 hieroglyphs to represent the sounds and meaning of their language.See http://www.egyptianhieroglyphs.net/gardiners-sign-list/
What is the difference between hieroglyphic drawings and characters?
characters can sometimes stand for letters, but hieroglyphs stand for whole words.
What were some advantages to using hieroglyphic writing?
Hierglyphics were used for writing. They had lots of symbols and pictures.
What is hieroglyphic writing and where was it used?
Hieroglyphics are a form of symbols that the ancient Egyptians use to write with. Most of it is to be found carved into the buildings that they left behind.
In the Chinese writing system what do characters stand for?
characters stand for symbols or letters like our alphabet.
What do the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols stand for?
See links below for ideas. The 'Introduction' link is probably the most basic of them.
What do hieroglyphic symbols mean?
They can mean words like our letters are kind of like their symbols. It is just another language but sometimes there hieroglyphic symbols mean sentences.
How is our system of writing similar to hieroglyphics?
Letters stand for sounds just as hieroglyphic symbols stand for sounds. ... It had 600 symbols, rather than the 26 in our alphabet. It could be written horizontally or vertically, left to right or right to left.
What do you call the picture symbols used by the ancient egyptians representing numerals?
hieroglyphic. Egyptian hieroglyphic
What is the population of hieroglyphics?
There are about 700 or so Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols.
Why might egyptians use hieroglyphic symbols?
As a form of written communication.
How do you spell hieroglphic?
The Egyptian pictographic symbols are hieroglyphics, the adjective is hieroglyphic.
How do you write in hieroglyphic symbols?
You should try to search a hieroglyphs alpahabet or transaltor
Are hieroglyphics letters or pictures?
Both. hieroglyphic symbols were originally pictures only, but several hundred of them evolved into phonetic symbols.
Pictures symbols used to represent words sounds or concepts are called?
Hieroglyphic
What is the entire hieroglyphic alphabet?
There is no such thing as a hieroglyphic alphabet. The Egyptians used about 700 hieroglyphs to represent the sounds and meaning of their language.See http://www.egyptianhieroglyphs.net/gardiners-sign-list/
What 2 kinds of symbols is ancient Egypt writing made up of?
Ancient Egyptian had far more than just two writing systems: Hieratic, Hieroglyphic, Demotic and then Coptic.
