Ancient Egyptian writing is called what?

Answer 1

Hieroglyphics- Hieroglyphics was the form of writing used in ancient Egypt. It was once believed to be a form of picture writing. However it contains a true alphabet, but had additional symbols used for various things that had no sounds or were complete ideas (as english usage on computers has punctuation marks, emot-icons, etc.). One of these special symbols is called a "cartouche" and is used to set apart a word or phrase that is someone's name from other text.

Coptic was (one of -Ed) the ancient languages of Egypt that was written using hieroglyphs.

Strictly speaking, "Hieroglyphs" are the actual symbols the ancient Egyptians used.

"Hieroglyphic" is the adjective used to describe the system of writing with hieroglyphs. Most hieroglyphs represent alphabetic sounds such as 'd' or 'p', 'a', 'b' etc. However, there are others and they are called determinatives because the ancient Egyptian languages tended just to use consonants (like Hebrew). That meant that sometimes, or even quite often, the arrangements for the consonants could read several different words. For example; and using English to demonstrate the point; 'C-T' could be "cat", "cut" or "cot". So a picture of the relevant object placed alongside the hieroglyphs 'determined' which particular word the ancient scribe intended or meant for each cluster of hieroglyphic symbols. If the scribe was narrating a story about feeding cats, a determinative might not be necessary since cots and cuts might be irrelevant to the story unless the cats were lying in cots or their claws were so sharp that the people with them had many cuts on their arms and legs.

Hieroglyphs were used to write at least three languages. As noted above, "Coptic" ("Goptic" or 'Egyptic') was one of them. Greek was another. Ancient Egyptian, probably a Semitic language similar to Hebrew, probably was the first language they were used for but no one is really able to say what that language was and how much it changed over the centuries and millennia. It might be safest to say the hieroglyphs used a Semitic language first of all.

Regarding the expression of Greek in hieroglyphs, there is another problem. Greek of the Hellenistic era (from Alexander the great onwards) developed from an older language that might be best described as "proto-Phoenician". There were many phoenician scripts in antiquity. Many of them were used by business houses or trading groups to communicate commercial information. Each commercial house-script, like a code, was probably safeguarded from competitors being able to read it. So that complicates matters when trying to understand how "Greek" developed and how the hieroglyphs expressed Greek.
Hieroglyphics

Answer 2

there were two main languages in Ancient Egypt - Hieroglyphs and Demotic. Hieroglyphs is the one which is most commonly talked about, and this was used by priests in religious ceremonies, and on the temples of Pharaohs and Nobles. Demotic was the language of the Egyptian people, used by all, in everyday circumstances. Both Hieroglyphics and Demotic are found on the Rosetta Stone, now in the British Museum.

Answer 3

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