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How are Egyptian hieroglyphics used today?
Today, hieroglyphics are only used as decorations, particularly to convey an Egyptian theme.
In hieroglyphics why are there 2 A's?
There are no A's in Egyptian hieroglyphics. Uniliteral hieroglyphics were only used to represent consonants.The confusion might be because the letter A is sometimes used to represent the Egyptian aleph (ꜣ) or the Egyptian Ayin (ꜥ) both of which are considered consonants in Egyptian language.
What was Egypt's alphabet used for?
Hieroglyphics were used for secret codes or for privacy in writing. Only the Egyptian people can decipher hieroglyphs in the ancient time.
Were Egyptian girls taught to write hieroglyphics?
It was rare, but occasionally a girl would be taught hieroglyphics. Most schooling was open only to boys.
Are hieroglyphics still useful today?
yes but only a small weak form of this language is used today but only in a Coptic Church.
What advantages does a phonetic alphabet like Greek have over pictorial writing like hieroglyphics?
The advantages of a phonetic alphabet has is that it was less complicated to read and understand. Writings such as Chinese or hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt have thousands of different symbols that can be easily confused with others.
Did scribes teach egyptian kids hieroglyphics?
No. Scribes only taught other apprentice scribes. The general public was not taught how to read.
What is Egyptian writing called and how is it different than ours?
The Egyptian system of writing was called "Hieroglyphics" . The writing combines logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with a total of some 1,000 distinct characters. By "our system writing" if you mean the Roman alphabet, then this only has 26 letters where each letter contributes a sound to make a word. There are about 172 thousand words in English.
Did the Rosetta stone help understand the Egyptian calendar?
no, it only helped the scientists now discover how the pharaohs of Egypt did good things for the people.
Who invented Egyptian gods?
Egyptian people's forefather's only
How did you learn to translate hieroglyphics?
Ancient Egyptian language is taught in many colleges and universities around the world. You can translate a large amount after only two or three classes.
Are the ancient Egyptian writing and hieroglyphics the same thing?
Not exactly. Not all Egyptian writing was hieroglyphic, and not all hieroglyphic writing was Egyptian. Hieroglyphics is a general term for picture-based writing systems, and the ancient Egyptians were not the only people to invent such a system. Ancient Mayan and Luwian (a language of Asia Minor) were also written using hieroglyphs (which looked very different from the Egyptian kind). At the same time, the ancient Egyptians had other writing systems. Hieratic, a form of cursive writing using ink on papyrus, existed alongside hieroglyphics from the very beginning. Another cursive form of writing, demotic, later developed from hieratic. Ultimately all of these writing systems were replaced by the Coptic alphabet, which was derived from the Greek alphabet.
