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the Rosetta stone was a stone found in the river Rosetta in Egypt, and had writing scribed on it in three different languages, Greek being one of them.

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Is the Greek alphabet written on a Rosetta stone?

Yes, there were Greek sentences in THE Rosetta stone.


Where is the rossetta stone?

The Rosetta Stone is not a person, it is an ancient stone with three different scripts written on it in Egyptian and Greek. The scripts are hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek. There is also a language teaching software called Rosetta Stone.


What Egyptian stone was decoded so you could understand and read hieroglyphics?

The Rosetta Stone. It contained Greek language and we know how to speak Greek.


If the Rosetta stone was never found how will it affect what you know about Egypt?

If the Rosetta Stone was never found, we probably could still not understand Egyptian hieroglyphs. By using the Rosetta Stone, people can compare them to the other language (Greek) because when this was figured out, Greek language still was around. If this stone would have never been found, we could not decipher the meaning of Egyptain hieroglyphs.


What was Rosetta stone useful for?

The Rosetta Stone is a stone with writing on it Egyptian and Greek, using hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek scripts. The hieroglyphic was the script used for important or religious documents. Demotic was the common script of Egypt and Greek the language of the rulers of Egypt at that time.


How did the Rosetta Stone decode the Ancient Egyptian Language?

A Greek version of the text was also on the stone, which we still use today.


What is the translation of the Rosetta Stone about?

It was supposed to be a stone with three languages on it. Egyptian hieroglyphics, another language, and Greek. Then someone translated Greek and it all took off from there.


What is the definition for Rosetta Stone Arabic?

Rosetta Stone Arabic is a software program for learning the Arabic language. It is part of the Rosetta Stone lineup of language instruction software.


What is the Rosetta stone about?

The Rosetta Stone is a flat rock that was found in Egypt in somewhere between 200 B.C. and 100 B.C. that had one passage written in three different languages: Hieroglyphics, another Egyptian language, and classical Greek. That's where the Rosetta Stone language program gets it's name.


How they traslete the Rosetta stone?

The Rosetta Stone contains three copies of the same text in Hieroglyphics, Demotic, and Greek. Since Greek was a widely known language, it allowed for the translation of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics, which were unknown at the time of discovery of the stone tablet.


What is the language lovers' super stone?

The Rosetta Stone.


Is Rosetta stone language available in Serban?

Yes, Rosetta Stone language learning software is available in Serban. Also Rosetta Stone offers Spanish, English, Chinese, Italian, French and German.