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How do you spell hiroglifics?
The correct spelling is "hieroglyphics" (ancient Egyptian pictographs).
What was the Aztec writing made of?
pictographs (hieroglyphics)
What do you call pictures carved out of stone?
pictographs or hieroglyphics
What do you call pictures that represent words?
Pictograms. Pictographs. Rebus. Hieroglyphics.
What is the name of the language the anasazi spoke?
I don't know the name, but i do know they wrote with petroglyphs, pictographs, and hieroglyphics.
Who were people paid to write things in Egypt?
They were called scribes, and were taught to translate spoken words into pictographs (hieroglyphics).
What is it called when pictures are used as a way of writing?
These are called pictographs. The Egyptians used Hieroglyphics and the Chinese/Japanese use Kanji.
How are hieroglyphics used in Egypt?
The were used for written communications. The pictographs represented various sounds and words similar to the letters we use to write with.
What is the difference between cuniaform and hiergliphics?
Cuneiform is a Sumerian langue, while hieroglyphics is Egyptian. 1 uses pictographs, Cuneiform doesn't.
Which civilization gave us hieroglyphics?
The ancient Egyptians. The hieroglyphic are pictographs, where each picture corresponds to an image as well as a sound (consonant) in the spoken language.
How are the symbols in hieroglyphics different than the symbols used in our writing system?
Although hieroglyphics were used as a form of writing, they were different from the alphabet because they were pictographs (picture images that represented different thoughts and concepts), rather that characters that are combined to communicate representative ideas.
What did the Ancient Egypt write about?
Picture based writing called hieroglyphics's.
