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Who were the ancient people who wrote pictures to represent words or sounds?
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∙ 13y ago
All western alphabets seem to have been derived from some kind of 'picture-writing.' However I'm guessing you are looking for Egyptian Hieroglyphics although both the Hittites / Assyrians and the Meso-American civilizations also used pictographic writing.
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Why did Egyptians use pictures instead of words?
The use of hieroglyphics is a very ancient way to visually record language. We are introduced to our modern alphabet at a very early age, and for us it seems odd that alphabets were not always the method of visually encoding language. Alphabets seem downright simplistic, but they are in fact very sophisticated systems. Imagine a time before any form of writing. Even the concept of visually encoding language might seem odd, useless or impossible. It must have been an amazing insight on the part of one or many people across cultures that there was a need to record words, and that a way to do it could be developed. I bet that a collection of dozens of abstract squiggles, meaningless on their own, (letters) would not have been the first thought on anyone's mind. Representations of real objects, and then perhaps representations of religious/cultural symbols would have been a more likely starting point. The history of the alphabet is quite interesting and thought-provoking. If you check this history, be sure to find out what linguists have to say about it, too. See links for more information.
Was the code of Hammurabi written in cuneiform?
ANSWERHammurabi spoke Akkadian and wrote in the emerging written text of cuneiform. Cuneiform started as a pictograph, a symbolic way to record trades and stories. Then over a few thousand years, it developed into straight marks and wedge shapes that represent phonetic sounds. The latter being a much quicker way to write, as the symbols for objects run into the thousands and sounds can be reduced to a few hundred strokes.
What was the name of ancient Egypt?
.....Egypt.....Answer: The ancient Egyptians had several different names for their own country. Hieroglyphs did not record vowels, so we can not know how these names were said:kmt "the black land", meaning the fertile, dark soil along the Nilehr idbwy "the two banks of Horus", meaning the riverbankstA mri "the beloved country"the letters A and i are used to write consonant sounds that do not exist in English.
What does the word 'Ikhet' mean in ancient Egyptian?
Ikhet is a modern way of pronouncing the word written with hieroglyphs that spell Axt (where the A is a consonant sound not found in English). The word means horizon, or the tomb of a king.The expression wDA r Axt (go to the horizon) is often used in funerary texts to mean "die". Axtyw or horizon-dwellers meant the dead.We can never know how ancient Egyptian words were really said because hieroglyphs do not record any of the vowel sounds.
How do you say is in Greece?
The word "is" in Greek is "είναι" (ine). Note that Greek language has "persons" (e.g. second person singular etc.) So "είναι" in various persons of the present tenseis:Εγώ είμαι [sounds like: ego ime] = I amΕσύ είσαι [sounds like: esi ise] = You areΑυτός/Αυτή/Αυτό είναι [sounds like: Aftos/Afti/Afto ine] = He/She/It isΕμείς είμαστε [sounds like: Emis imaste] = We areΕσείς είστε [sounds like: Esis iste] = You are Αυτοί είναι [sounds like: Afti ine] = They are
What are words numbers sounds or pictures that represent facts or ideas?
words, pictures ,or sounds that represents facts are called
Pictures symbols used to represent words sounds or concepts are called?
Hieroglyphic
What Egyptians used pictures symbols to represent sounds?
:D They're called Hieroglyphics
What is the writing system of the ancient Egyptians called?
The ancient Egyptians had a form of pictorial writing called hieroglyphs. The hieroglyphs were various pictures that stood for single letter sounds or the sounds of multiple letters put together.The name of the Ancient Egyptian writing system is called "hieroglyphics."These were pictographs, picture symbols that could represent letter sounds, words and phrases.Hieroglyphics.Hieroglyphics.
Picture writing writing used to represent ideas and sounds?
These are called Hieroglyphs. They were used in Ancient Egypt.
What are Egyptian people and hieroglphics?
Egyptian people are inhabitants of Egypt and hieroglyphics are Of, relating to, or being a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.
How is the ancient Chinese writing system different from the cuneiform and hieroglyphics?
Chinese characters are logographic (representing ideas instead of sounds) whereas hieroglyphic symbols represent consonants as well as general concepts (called determiners). Furthermore, Chinese characters are "stylized" and for the most part do not look like their original pictures, whereas hieroglyphics retained the clear shapes of the images they originally represented.Cuneiform characters represent the sounds of syllables only and are similar to Japanese kana.
What can a Nintendo dsi you do?
Did you mean what can you do on a Nintendo DSi? You can take pictures, capture sounds, warp pictures, warp sounds, make flipbooks, see how alike two people are . You can do a lot of stuff.
How is ancient Chinese writing different from cuneiform and hieroglyphics?
Chinese characters are logographic (representing ideas instead of sounds) whereas hieroglyphic symbols represent consonants as well as general concepts (called determiners). Furthermore, Chinese characters are "stylized" and for the most part do not look like their original pictures, whereas hieroglyphics retained the clear shapes of the images they originally represented.Cuneiform characters represent the sounds of syllables only and are similar to Japanese kana.
What is the ancient Egyptians writing language?
The Ancient Egyptian writing language was hieroglyphics. Ex:An eagle was the sound aaaa They also made pictures for sounds. Ex:Three grains of wheat was raa
What were pictures created by ancient Romans by joining together pieces called?
It sounds like you are referring to the mosaics. The pieces of the mosaics were called tesserae
What is the term for the Egyptian form of writing in which pictures were use for words or sounds?
Ancient Egyptians used hieroglyphs to write on papyrus or carve into stone.
