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They can mean words like our letters are kind of like their symbols. It is just another language but sometimes there hieroglyphic symbols mean sentences.

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How was hieroglyphic different from your writing today from what cuneiform used by Mesopotamians?

it had picture symbols and ours today has no picture symbols. it different from cuneiform becuse cuneiform has more lettter symbols thhen picture


Which type of writing system did both the Maya and the Egyptians develop?

The most famous of all ancient Egyptian scripts is hieroglyphic. The Mayans also used the Mayan hieroglyphic.


What do Hestia's symbols mean and how did she get them?

Her symbol is the hearth, because she is the goddess of chastity and the home's hearth.


What is the old Egyptian word for prince?

the eqyptian hieroglyph that underlies the word prince in English texts is transliterated SR. the letter e is often added to fill out Egyptian words since the hieroglyphic alphabet, as it is currently understood, didn't have vowels. if it is left untranslated into English, it would apear as the title Ser (or Sar). it is sometimes left this way, as there is occasional debate as to whether the modern word prince adequately conveys the ancient meaning.


How was Chinese writing different from cuneiform and hieroglyphic writhing?

Chinese writing is logographic, meaning it uses characters to represent words or morphemes, which allows for a high degree of abstraction and can convey meaning without necessarily indicating pronunciation. In contrast, cuneiform and hieroglyphic writing systems are more syllabic and often combine phonetic elements with logographic symbols. Additionally, Chinese writing has remained relatively consistent over time, while cuneiform and hieroglyphics evolved significantly and eventually fell out of use. This structural and historical continuity sets Chinese writing apart from the other two systems.

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What do you call the picture symbols used by the ancient egyptians representing numerals?

hieroglyphic. Egyptian hieroglyphic


What is the population of hieroglyphics?

There are about 700 or so Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols.


Why might egyptians use hieroglyphic symbols?

As a form of written communication.


How do you spell hieroglphic?

The Egyptian pictographic symbols are hieroglyphics, the adjective is hieroglyphic.


What is heroglapik?

Did you mean hieroglyphic? Relating to 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 do you write in hieroglyphic symbols?

You should try to search a hieroglyphs alpahabet or transaltor


Are hieroglyphics letters or pictures?

Both. hieroglyphic symbols were originally pictures only, but several hundred of them evolved into phonetic symbols.


Pictures symbols used to represent words sounds or concepts are called?

Hieroglyphic


What 2 kinds of symbols is ancient Egypt writing made up of?

Ancient Egyptian had far more than just two writing systems: Hieratic, Hieroglyphic, Demotic and then Coptic.


How is hieroglyphic writing different from our writing today?

Hieroglyphic writing uses pictures and symbols to represent sounds, words, or ideas, while our writing today primarily uses letters to represent sounds and words. Additionally, hieroglyphic writing was typically written in rows or columns, and could be read from left to right or right to left, depending on the direction of the symbols.


What does hieroglyphes mean?

hieroglyph comes from the Greek word meaning 'sacred carving'. The symbols are individual pictures that do not join together.A picture or symbol used in hieroglyphic writing.Something that suggests a hieroglyph.


How was hieroglyphic different from your writing today from what cuneiform used by Mesopotamians?

it had picture symbols and ours today has no picture symbols. it different from cuneiform becuse cuneiform has more lettter symbols thhen picture