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Why did Egyptian scribes sometimes use hierotia and demotic symbol in of hieroglyphs when writing?
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∙ 6y ago
To write quickly on papyrus or sherds of pottery or stone. Hieroglyphs must be written slowly, carefully and grouped neatly in regulated ways; hieratic script wrote exactly the same signs but much more quickly and without the neat groupings - simply in a long line, like modern handwriting.
Demotic was even more quick to write, since it used many standard abbreviations for each sign, or even an entire group of signs. Today it is much harder to read because of these abbreviated signs, but for the ancient Egyptian scribes of the very Late Period it was a form of shorthand.
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∙ 10y agoBecause hieroglyphs are a more formal way of writing
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What were the forms of Egyptian writing and when were they used?
Hieroglyphs, hieratic and demotic. Hieroglyphs were only for statues, tombs, temples and important documents, and were not used every day. The other two are like simpler versions of hieroglyphs and were used everyday.
What are the 3 languages used in hieroglyphics?
Your question indicates that you have misunderstood what you have read or been taught. Hieroglyphs (a noun - only Americans call them "hieroglyphics", which is an adjective form) were used in ancient Egypt to record their own language and no other. Two other scripts (Hieratic and Demotic) evolved from hieroglyphs but still record the ancient Egyptian language. A decree recorded on the Rosetta Stone is written twice in ancient Egyptian (in hieroglyphs and Demotic script) and once in the Greek alphabet - this enabled scholars to compare the known Greek words with the unknown Egyptian equivalents and begin to make a translation. Other cultures used hieroglyphs (otherwise simply known as glyphs), including the Maya, the Hittites and the early Indus Valley culture; all were used to record the language of the people concerned and there is absolutely no connection between the different scripts.
How many languages were found on the Rosetta stone?
Three. Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Egyptian Demotic Script and Koine Greek.
What object is the key to deciphering ancient hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt?
The Rosetta stone was a big help in deciphering the language It was written in three languages, Heiroglyphs, Latin and Demotic (another Egyptian dialect) It helped a great deal as people already understood some heiroglyphs and using the latin and demotic they could see patterns and which symbol could be which letter
What would our understanding be of ancient Egypt without the Rosetta Stone?
The Rosetta Stone is fundamental to our understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs. The key is that the same exact text is repeated three times, first in hieroglyphs, then in demotic script and finally in Greek, which was the most important for our understanding. Since it's discovery, other stones like this have been found, but the original Rosetta stone remains as the key to our understanding of ancient Egyptian culture.
What were the forms of Egyptian writing and when were they used?
Hieroglyphs, hieratic and demotic. Hieroglyphs were only for statues, tombs, temples and important documents, and were not used every day. The other two are like simpler versions of hieroglyphs and were used everyday.
What were the three languages on the Rosetta Stone?
There are two languages on the Rosetta Stone 1) # Greek and 2) Egyptian in two scripts # Demotic, used in everyday writing and # Hieroglyphs, what you see all over the temples. For more information, see 'Related links' below this box.
What are the 3 languages used in hieroglyphics?
Your question indicates that you have misunderstood what you have read or been taught. Hieroglyphs (a noun - only Americans call them "hieroglyphics", which is an adjective form) were used in ancient Egypt to record their own language and no other. Two other scripts (Hieratic and Demotic) evolved from hieroglyphs but still record the ancient Egyptian language. A decree recorded on the Rosetta Stone is written twice in ancient Egyptian (in hieroglyphs and Demotic script) and once in the Greek alphabet - this enabled scholars to compare the known Greek words with the unknown Egyptian equivalents and begin to make a translation. Other cultures used hieroglyphs (otherwise simply known as glyphs), including the Maya, the Hittites and the early Indus Valley culture; all were used to record the language of the people concerned and there is absolutely no connection between the different scripts.
What has the author Mark Depauw written?
Mark Depauw has written: 'A companion to demotic studies' -- subject(s): Demotic Papyri, Egyptian language, Papyri, Demotic
What is demotic writing?
Demotic refers to either the ancient Egyptian script derived from northern forms of hieratic used in the Delta, or the stage of the Egyptian language following Late Egyptian and preceding Coptic. The term was first used by the Greek historian Herodotus to distinguish it from hieratic and hieroglyphic scripts. By convention, the word "Demotic" is capitalized in order to distinguish it from demotic Greek.
TWOimportant facts about Rosetta stone?
The Rosetta Stone is and engraved stele. It is inscribed in three different languages: Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic script and Ancient Greek. It was created in 196 BCE on behalf of King Ptolemy V.
What is used to decipher hieroglphics?
Egyptian hieroglyphs were first successfully deciphered with the help of the Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta Stone (so name because it was dicovered in Rosetta - or Rashid) had the text of a decree of the Pharaoh Ptolemy the fifth inscribed in three forms, - hiroglyphs, Egyptian demotic and Ancient Greek. By comparing the text in a known language with the hieroglyphs, Jean Francois Champollion was able to decipher the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone (1822). His work served as the basis for the deciphering of other hieroglyphic inscriptions.
How many languages were found on the Rosetta stone?
Three. Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Egyptian Demotic Script and Koine Greek.
What object is the key to deciphering ancient hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt?
The Rosetta stone was a big help in deciphering the language It was written in three languages, Heiroglyphs, Latin and Demotic (another Egyptian dialect) It helped a great deal as people already understood some heiroglyphs and using the latin and demotic they could see patterns and which symbol could be which letter
What would our understanding be of ancient Egypt without the Rosetta Stone?
The Rosetta Stone is fundamental to our understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs. The key is that the same exact text is repeated three times, first in hieroglyphs, then in demotic script and finally in Greek, which was the most important for our understanding. Since it's discovery, other stones like this have been found, but the original Rosetta stone remains as the key to our understanding of ancient Egyptian culture.
Why did Rosetta stone discovery help modern day scholars decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics?
It provided the first chance to understand Egyptian Hieroglyphics writing by providing the same text in Hieroglyphics, Demotic, and Greek. Both the Greek and Demotic could be read to find out what was being said on the stone, the Hieroglyphics could then be compared and analyzed for patterns (similar to the way codes and cyphers are broken).
How is demotic writing relate to the hieroglyphics?
For most of ancient Egyptian history there were only two scripts: hieroglyphic text, used for monumental inscriptions, tombs, statues, buildings and so on - and hieratic, which is a cursive form of the same hieroglyphs used for keeping records, writing letters and in mathematical, legal and medicinal texts. Hieratic derived directly from hieroglyphs and seems to have existed right from the beginning; it was usually written in black ink and always from right to left. Very late in Egyptian history, around 650 BC, a third script was introduced. This was Demotic, which is a much simplified and mutated form of hieratic. Demotic texts do not reflect the hieroglyphic equivalent sign for sign, as hieratic does. Demotic is from the Greek word meaning "of the people", but it essentially replaced hieratic for writing documents and letters and it does not mean that more ordinary people became literate. It is full of ligatures, abbreviations and peculiar language constructions which make it very difficult to read and almost impossible to transcribe into hieroglyphs - it appears to have been influenced by classical Greek and Roman scripts. Coptic borrowed six letters from Demotic for its writing system.
